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Jon Henley “Norway considers giving mountain to Finland as 100th birthday present” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/norway-finland-move-mountain-halti-halditsohkka-highest-peak

2017年、フィンランドは独立100周年を迎える。フィンランドの南隣の諾威はそのお祝いに或るプレゼントを計画している。それは山を送ること。諾威と芬蘭の国境地帯には「ハルティ山」*1という複数の峰からなる山系が走っている。ハルティ山の最高部は諾威領内で海抜1365米。諾威領内には1331米の峰がある。芬蘭の現在の最高部は1324米であるが、1331米を譲られることによって、７米高くなることになる。

At 1,324 metres above sea level, the highest point in Finland currently lies on a bleak mountain spur known as Hálditšohkka, part of a far larger fell known as Halti, more than 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
Halti’s summit, at 1,365 metres high, is a kilometre away in Norway. But moving the border barely 40 metres further up the mountainside would put Hálditšohkka’s 1,331-metre summit in Finland – and make the country’s highest point seven metres higher.

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The originator of the idea is a retired geophysicist and government surveyor, Bjørn Geirr Harsson, 76, who learned last year that Finland would celebrate the 100th anniversary of its independence from Russia on 6 December 2017 and recalled being puzzled by the location of the border when he flew over Halti in the 1970s.
Harsson wrote to the ministry of foreign affairs in July 2015, pointing out that the gesture would cost Norway a “barely noticeable” 0.015 sq km of its national territory and make Finland very happy.
The border, a straight line drawn in the 1750s, was “geophysically illogical”, he has since told Norwegian media, and it was unfortunate and unfair for Finland that its highest point was not even a proper peak.

但し、諾威憲法はその第１条において国土の「不可分」性を明記しており、国境の変更は憲法に違反する、と諾威外務省は指摘している。他方、国境のマイナーな微調整は「不可分」性の否定には中らないという意見もある；

Responding, the foreign ministry said that although it appreciated the suggestion, article 1 of Norway’s constitution unfortunately stipulated that the country is a “free, independent, indivisible and inalienable realm”.
The deputy chair of the parliamentary scrutiny committee, Michael Tetzschner, also told Aftenposten earlier this year that the plan was “bewildering” and “a joke”, stressing the constitution “clearly prohibits the surrender by the state of any part of Norwegian territory to another power”.
But Øyvind Ravna, a law professor at the Norwegian Arctic university, told the paper the constitution did not apply to minor border adjustments, pointing out that Norway’s borders with both Finland and Russia had moved in recent times to reflect changes in riverbeds and the shifting position of sandbanks and islets.