Norway Considers Gifting Finland its Highest Mountain Peak as 100th Birthday Present

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 What do you give your Nordic Sister, Finland that has 188,000 lakes for a Birthday present? Its highest mountain back. The government of Norway has confirmed that it is considering to move its border by 20 Meters so as to gift Finland a mountain peak that would become the country’s highest peak. “There are a few formal difficulties and I have not yet made my final decision,” the Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg said, “But we are looking into it.”
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The highest point in Finland currently lies at 1,324 metres above sea level, on a bleak mountain spur known as Hálditšohkka. Halti’s summit, a kilometre away in Norway, at 1,365 metres high. Moving the border just 40 metres up the mountainside would put Hálditšohkka’s 1,331-metre summit in Finland – and make the country’s highest point seven metres higher. The peak “would be a wonderful gift to our sister nation”, said the mayor of Kåfjord, Svein Leiros, who has expressed enthusiastic support for the plan, with other local politicians.

The idea was first proposed by a retired geophysicist and government surveyor, Bjorn Geirr Harsson, 76. He wrote to the ministry of foreign affairs in July 2015, proposing the idea and pointing out that the gesture would cost Norway a “barely noticeable” 0.015 sq km of its territory. He also told social media that the border, a straight line drawn in 1750s was “geophysically illogical” and it is unfair and unfortunate for Finland that its highest point is not even a proper peak.

He also started a campaign on facebook and added that, "Not only will this be a great gift, but how many countries can brag about having given a mountain as a gift?". The unique “Halti as an Anniversary Gift” campaign received over 2000 ‘likes’ on Facebook only a week after it was launched. The page has so far got 14000 likes.

The Foreign Ministry however said, article 1 of Norway’s constitution unfortunately stipulated that the country is a “free, independent, indivisible and inalienable realm”. But Oyvind Ravna, a law professor at the Norwegian Arctic University, clarified that “The constitution did not apply to minor border adjustments, pointing out that Norway’s borders with both Finland and Russia had moved in recent times to reflect changes in riverbeds and the shifting position of sandbanks and islets.”

News From :::: The Guardian

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