Bogskär is a small group of
Baltic Sea islets off the southernmost tip of
Finland. It is Finland's southernmost land and governed by the municipality of
Kökar in
Åland. The islets are remote: the distance to the nearest large islands in Kökar,
Föglö
Föglö is a group of islands and municipality in Åland, an autonomous territory of Finland.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Swedish, ...
and
Lemland
Lemland is a municipality of Ã…land, an autonomous territory of Finland.
The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Swedish.
The Lemström chan ...
is over .
Bogskär is so remote that it is located outside the
internal waters of Finland, and has its own, separate internal waters. Up to 1995, even its
territorial waters were separate from the rest of Finland. When the territorial waters were expanded from a limit of to , the territorials waters merged. Even today, territorial waters extend only south of Bogskär.
See also
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Bogskär Lighthouse
Bogskär Lighthouse is located on the Bogskär skerries of Åland.
History
The lighthouse was constructed in the 1870s and was completed in 1882, on Sweden's initiative. Of steel construction, it was erected on a three-metre granite plinth. The ...
References
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Landforms of Ã…land
Finnish islands in the Baltic