title: Ohtakari
text: # Ohtakari
  
  Ohtakari is an island and community in the Finnish sector of the Bay of Bothnia.
  
  ## Description
  
  Ohtakari is an island and fishing village of the Kokkola district in the former municipality of Lohtaja. Ohtakari is at the head of the Lohtaja Vattaja peninsula, connected by a causeway, the last island before the open sea. From Ohtakari to Lohtaja village is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). Ohtakari holds a fishing port, a fishing museum, a Lutheran Evangelical Association of Finland (Suomen Luterilainen Evankeliumiyhdistys ry, SLEY) camp and an old turf maze, or Troy Town. There is also a look-out tower and functioning lighthouse. An annual festival is held in the village.
  
  ## History
  
  The oldest taxation records of Ohtakari date to the 1500s. Fishermen lived on the island during the best fishing period. The island also served as a pilot's station for more than a hundred years. The work of the fishermen in the old days is presented in the fishing museum. The causeway leading to the island was completed in the 1970s.
  
  ## Distances
  
  * Lohtaja village - about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi)
  * Kokkola - about 45 kilometres (28 mi)
  * Himanka - about 20 kilometres (12 mi)
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * The pilot's house on the island
  * Ohtakari's rocky shoreline
  