Märket
Märket is a 3.3-hectare uninhabited skerry in the Baltic Sea shared by Sweden and Finland, with a lighthouse as its salient humanmade feature. Märket has been divided between the two countries since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn of 1809 defined the border between Sweden and Grand Duchy of Finland as going through the middle of the island.
- Type: Islet
- Description: small rocky uninhabited islet between Sweden and Finland located in Baltic sea
- Also known as: “Maerket” and “Market Reef”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Märket Lighthouse.
Märket Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Märket is a 3.3-hectare uninhabited skerry in the Baltic Sea shared by Sweden and Finland, with a lighthouse as its salient humanmade feature. Märket has been divided between the two countries since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn of 1809 defined the border between Sweden and Grand Duchy of Finland as going through the middle of the island.
Märket
- Category: landform
- Location: Hammarland, Countryside, Åland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.30091° or 60° 18′ 3″ north
Longitude
19.13222° or 19° 7′ 56″ east
Open location code
9FGX842J+9V
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Märket from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Märket” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة العلامة”
- Armenian: “Մարկետ (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Մարկետ”
- Asturian: “Märket”
- Belarusian: “Мэркет”
- Bulgarian: “Меркет”
- Catalan: “Märket”
- Cebuano: “Märket”
- Chinese: “迈尔凯特礁”
- Chinese: “马凯特岛”
- Czech: “Märket”
- Danish: “Märket”
- Dutch: “Market”
- Dutch: “Märket”
- Esperanto: “Märket”
- Estonian: “Märket”
- Finnish: “Märket”
- French: “Märket”
- German: “Märket”
- Greek: “Märket”
- Greek: “Μάερκετ”
- Greek: “Μέρκετ”
- Hebrew: “מארקט”
- Hebrew: “מרקט”
- Hindi: “मार्केट”
- Hungarian: “Märket”
- Indonesian: “Märket”
- Italian: “Märket”
- Japanese: “マーケット島”
- Korean: “메르케트 섬”
- Korean: “메르케트섬”
- Latvian: “Merketa”
- Limburgan: “Märket”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Märket”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Märket”
- Norwegian: “Märket”
- Novial: “Märket”
- Persian: “مارکت”
- Polish: “Märket”
- Portuguese: “Märket”
- Russian: “Меркет”
- Scots: “Märket”
- Spanish: “Märket”
- Swedish: “Märket”
- Turkish: “Märket”
- Ukrainian: “Меркет”
- Western Frisian: “It Merk”
- “ma Make”
- “Märket”
- “Q163395”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Märketshällar and Märketskallen.
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