Märket is the smallest island shared by two countries anywhere in the world. But after the lighthouse was built in 1885 by Finland’s Russian rulers, it was realised that the buildings had been constructed on the Swedish side of the reef by mistake. The national frontier was eventually redrawn to give Sweden a similar sized piece of territory from the Finnish part of the island without changing the sea boundaries, so today’s border zig-zags erratically back and forth over the reef
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