Finnish ski resort town buries £17,000 gold bar – and wants you to find it

Finnish ski resort town buries £17,000 gold bar – and wants you to find it Josh Milton Published June 5, 2026 7:47pm Updated June 5, 2026 7:48pm Share this article via whatsappShare this article via xCopy the link to this article.Link is copiedShare this article via facebook Comment now Comments

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People in the UK love to moan about the lack of sunshine – but Finland has the exact opposite problem.

About a quarter of Finnish land is bathed in never-ending light from late May to the end of July, known as the midnight sun.

And to encourage people to book tickets to Levi, the country’s largest ski resort in rural Kittilä, tourism officials are throwing a treasure hunt.

But we’re talking actual treasure here – a golden nugget worth about £17,000.

Starting on 18 June, visitors will receive a series of clues taking them through the resort to hunt the gold chunk down.

The clues will take treasure-hunters around the trails and landmarks of Levi, known for its winter ski slopes and views of the northern lights.

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It might be tiny, but the price tag isn’t (Picture: Travel Levi)

Don’t worry, though, you won’t need to be hauling a shovel and a compass around – you won’t need to dig for the gold bar.

Instead, Travel Levi says, you might be able to find the gold bar after any of the clues.

More and more clues will be handed out throughout the summer, making the gold easier to track, with the last on August 22. (We half-assume it’ll be a map with an X on it.)

You can grab the first at the Levi Visitor Centre.

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Travel Levi announced the treasure hunt, called Midnight Sun Hunt, on Tuesday.

The tourism company’s CEO, Satu Pesonen, said: ‘Levi is known above all for its winter, but the northern summer is still undiscovered by many.

‘We want to give travellers a new reason to visit Levi when the sun never sets and the fell landscape reveals a completely different side of itself.’

What is the midnight sun?

Midnight Sun, also known as polar day, is when sunlight lasts for more than 24 hours. The sun, in other words, never sets, even at midnight.

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For those living in the polar regions, this is just what summer is.

The Earth spins around the sun at a slight tilt, meaning one half of the planet, called a hemisphere, is facing the sun more.

So, during the summer months, the regions around the North Pole are always facing the sun.

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On the flipside, six months later, that same region will now be facing away from the sun, so it experiences months of darkness, called polar night.

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