Talk:Märket

Location of the lighthouse
This article contains the false claim that the lighthouse would be built on "the highest point on the island". I believe this claim might originate from the book Suomen majakat by Seppo Laurell (ISBN 978-952-5180-21-3) that also contains it, or possibly one of the sources used for that book. However, everyone who visits the island can see for themselves that the lighthouse indeed is not built on the highest point of the island, but a bit to the west of that point, where the land is lower (this can actually also be seen in the picture in this article, but since you don't see the horizon it may be hard to see for someone who has never visited the place). The charts from the national land survey of Finland also confirm this; the lighthouse is somewhere close to the border of the 2,5 meter height curve: http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/kartanhaku/osoitehaku.html?e=65843&n=6710876&scale=2000&tool=siirra&width=600&height=600&lang=fi

I believe that this false claim probably originates from the assumption that someone building a lighthouse on this low a rock probably would choose the highest point. However, in reality, the builders probably chose the spot that simply was "the best to build on", but we cannot know for sure. A book about Märket (Märket: Havsfyr och gränsland) by Jan Andersson was recently published, and although it does not say anything about why this exact spot was chosen to build on, there is both a mention that there was some kind of survey made by the authorities before the lighthouse was built, and that it was probably believed at that time that the whole island belonged to Finland/Russia because of a map error. This would go well with the assumption that the builders simply chose the "best" spot, and not the highest, if they believed that the whole island belonged to Finland. However, since we really cannot know exactly what went on inside the builders' heads, we should remove the false claim that the lighthouse would be built on the highest spot of the island. On an island that is around 3 meters high, the difference between 2,5 meters and 3 meters leads to a quite big percentual error. Without proof, we should not make any claims about the choice of the building site at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.114.151.134 (talk) 11:33, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Status of Märket
This is somewhat confusing:
 * Market Reef, as it is called in English among three million radio amateurs around the world, is a "separate country" for them since it is the only Finnish territory with another country's territory in between (Åland being considered a 'country' in this context by radio amateurs).

Märket belongs to the municipality of Eckerö and thus the Åland region/province. --Vuo (talk) 21:15, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that this is confusing, as will thus rephrase the section. Passportguy (talk) 12:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The current phrasing "Market Reef ... is a separate country" is still misleading. Radio amateurs may count it as a separate entity, but that does not make it a country. It is part of the two countries Finland and Sweden. I'll rephrase it again. --Jmk (talk) 20:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

As I write this, the phrasing is "Radio amateurs around the world consider the Finnish part of Märket Reef (as they call it) a separate entity, distinct from Finland and Sweden." My main question is: Why? What is the basis for this particular group to hold this particular view? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JanGB (talk • contribs) 06:37, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

micronations and microstates
Reading these articles and linking to them could be considered. Penyulap  talk 05:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

two different time zones
Perhaps it should be mentioned that the island is also in two different time zones? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.156.220.120 (talk) 23:42, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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Radio enthusiasts
Why would radio enthusiasts go to such a remote island? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Infospazm (talk • contribs) 04:12, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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