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Buy the new Lighthouse Islands 2011 -calender and support the work of Finnish Lighthouse Society to save Finnish lighthouses, specially Märket and Gustavsvärn.
The Finnish Lighthouse Society was founded to promote protection and preserving of the Finnish lighthouses and other maritime security signs as well as their cultural inheritage. The Society serves also as connecting bond between lighthouse enthusiasts and represents Finland in the international lighthouse associations.
Read more: Association
Photo: Märket lighthouse in May 2010 after 3 years restauration. The work will continue on the 5th of June this year. You are warmly welcome to visit the lighthouse! Instructions for travel on these pages!
Hard work for Märket lighthouse
Finnish Lighthouse Society is working to save the unique Märket lighthouse on the border of Finland and Sweden ten kilometres from the nearest neighbours. We are renovating the unique lighthouse from 1885, which had stood empty for 30 years on the border waiting for new ideas of use.
A remarkable step was taken last summer: the painting of the lighthouse:
We continue repairing it and we invite every lighthouse lover in the world to participate.
 
The Finnish Lighthouse Society organized a Nordic Lighthouse Conference this time in Mariehamn, Aland, 5.-6.6.2009
The conference is organized every third year in some of the Nordic countries. The themes for the conference are various forms of the protection of lighthouses and lighthouse museums in the Nordic Countries.
The conference program contained, in addition to lectures, visits to fine lighthouses of Aland, e.g. to Märket. Read more: Conference
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