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Post by toetapping on Dec 18, 2015 23:46:36 GMT
Norway: Online Campaign Launched to Give Mountain to Finland in 2017 Though part of the Halti mountain is already located in Finland, its highest peak is in Norway. The campaign proposes altering the border as a gift for Finland's 100th anniversary of independence. HereI liked this part. "Not only will this be a great gift, but how many countries can brag about having given a mountain as a gift? |
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 29, 2015 1:48:13 GMT
I haven't heard about this, so it must have made the news while I was out of the country.
Thanks for sharing, Toetapping!
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Post by toetapping on Dec 29, 2015 5:10:24 GMT
I saw it and thought you may like that..
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 29, 2015 11:32:06 GMT
Yes, it's a very nice gesture. Norway has enough mountains already, so what is one more peak or 100 square meters of territory? It's not like when Queen Victoria and her cousin Emperor Wilhelm set down with a ruler and decided to draw new boundery lines on the Africa map, so that Kilimanjaro suddenly belonged to German East Africa (present Tanzania) instead of Kenya. Read more here. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 17:19:47 GMT
Yes, it's a very nice gesture. Norway has enough mountains already, so what is one more peak or 100 square meters of territory? It's not like when Queen Victoria and her cousin Emperor Wilhelm set down with a ruler and decided to draw new boundery lines on the Africa map, so that Kilimanjaro suddenly belonged to German East Africa (present Tanzania) instead of Kenya. Read more here. You have a mountain to spare? Nice.  |
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 29, 2015 17:39:28 GMT
If the Finns are happy with a patch of unproductive wasteland, I'd say let them have it...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 17:48:36 GMT
If the Finns are happy with a patch of unproductive wasteland, I'd say let them have it... I live between two large mountain ranges, I'm wondering if any country would like to perhaps barter for a mountain or two?  |
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 29, 2015 18:23:25 GMT
Many Norwegians would gladly trade some of their mountain peaks for more sunshine. Where Lys and I used to live on the West Coast, the sun is gone from early November to late January.   |
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Post by toetapping on Dec 30, 2015 4:30:55 GMT
I will have to posts you some sunshine over Heretix. Plenty here.
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 30, 2015 9:19:12 GMT
Thanks in advance, Toetapping! The benefits and disadvantages of topographical conditions sure aren't evenly distributed around the world!  |
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Post by sunny on Dec 30, 2015 23:59:43 GMT
The place with most sunshine on earth is Yuma, Arizona, which can boast of 4015 hours a year or 11 hours a day on average.
At the other end of the scale, Iceland has less than 1200 hours a year...
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Post by toetapping on Dec 31, 2015 5:23:35 GMT
Sunny Iceland would be no good for me. If we have two days of grey skies I am quite sad. I am one of those people I have to have blue skies.
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Post by geriatrix on Dec 31, 2015 8:46:50 GMT
I have learned to appreciate whatever good weather nature brings us, while not becoming affected by clouds, rain or snow. I suffer from a latent depression and I cannot afford to let climatic conditions drag me down, so I take what comes with equal calm, even if I have to run through a foot of snow in minus 20 degrees C. Sorry for derailing the thread. This has absolutely nothing to do with a mountain changing country. |
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