Suomen leijona ( sv, Finlands lejon), ''The Lion of Finland'', is a marker light and radio beacon in the Northern
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
operated by the
Finnish Maritime Administration, located approximately Southwest of the island of
Utö, six kilometers outside the
Finnish territorial waters
The term territorial waters is sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potenti ...
but inside the country's
exclusive economic zone.
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Suomen leijona lighthouse
The original Suomen leijona ( sv, Finlands lejon), ''The Lion of Finland'', was a caisson lighthouse
A caisson lighthouse (also referred to as a sparkplug lighthouse, or bug light) is a type of lighthouse whose superstructure rests on a concrete or metal caisson. Caisson lighthouses were developed in the late nineteenth century as a cheaper alte ...
; a steel tower resting on a concrete caisson, equipped with a helicopter platform and powered by a wind generator. The lighthouse had a futuristic design with a helipad on the top of a downward tapering tower, which made great demands on the foundation and the bottom of the tower. In 1992 it was discovered that the foundation had been under-mined and that the lighthouse was threatening to collapse. The problem was remedied by filling with rubble, but the problem recurred in 2004. Deemed too dangerous to repair the lighthouse, it was demolished in 2005 and replaced by the much smaller, marker light / radio beacon.
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the lighthouse tower at Kotka, similar to the original light-house
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Lighthouses completed in 1987
Towers completed in 1987
Lighthouses in Finland