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Ukonkivi
The island is about high, broad and a long. The distance from the village of Inari to Ukonkivi is approximately . There are guided tours to the site during the summer from the harbour of the Sami museum Siida.
There are two known siedis at Ukonsaari. The first one to be studied was a sacrificial cave. One of the most important archaeological findings in Lapland was made at Ukonkivi in 1873 by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans, when a silver jewellery fragment was found in the cave. An additional siedi was discovered in 2007 by Finnish archaeologists.
The names of some of the numerous islands adjacent to Ukonsaari may suggest other religious sites, for example:
- Palo Ukko (Finnish: Fire-Ukko)
- Pikku Ukko (Little Ukko)
- Ukonkarit (Ukko's skerries, a series of islets close to Ukonsaari)
- Hautuumaasaari (Burial ground island)
- Aviosaaret (Marriage islands)
- Tissikivisaari (Breast-stone island)
- Junttisaari (Lad island. Juntti is a complex word approximately meaning a juvenile yet adolescent male.)
- Vanha hautuumaasaari (Old burial ground island)
- Ristisalmensaaret (Cross sound islands)