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Luktvatnet
Luktvatnet
	Interactive map of the lake
Location	Vefsn Municipality, Nordland
Coordinates	66°02′25″N 13°34′39″E / 66.0404°N 13.5776°E
Basin countries	Norway
Max. length	3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi)
Max. width	2 kilometres (1.2 mi)
Surface area	3.76 km2 (1.45 sq mi)
Shore length1	18.65 kilometres (11.59 mi)
Surface elevation	137 metres (449 ft)
References	NVE
	1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Luktvatnet^[2] is a lake that lies in the northern part of Vefsn Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 3.76-square-kilometre (1.45 sq mi) lake lies between the mountains Korgfjellet and Lukttinden, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of the village of Elsfjord. The European route E6 highway passes along the northern shore of the lake.^[3]

Name

The name is probably from the Southern Sami language word Loektejaevrie. This is a compound of loekti which means "inlet" and jaevrie which means "lake", thus it is "the lake with many inlets".

References

^ "Innsjødatabase". NVE.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2024-10-20.
^ "Informasjon om stadnamn". Norgeskart (in Norwegian). Kartverket. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
^ "Luktvatnet" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2011-11-30.