Mäkiluoto
Sign in to savethumb Mäkiluoto or Mac Elliot () is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Finland, just to the south of Porkkala peninsula. It is part of Kirkkonummi municipality. The whole island is an unmanned military installation and access for civilians is heavily restricted. A number of coastal artillery guns are emplaced there.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Finnish islands in the Baltic, Geography articles needing translation from Finnish Wikipedia and Islands of Uusimaa.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Kirkkonummi
- Area
- 0.75
- Body of water
- Gulf of Finland
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thumb Mäkiluoto or Mac Elliot () is a Finnish island in the Gulf of Finland, just to the south of Porkkala peninsula. It is part of Kirkkonummi municipality. The whole island is an unmanned military installation and access for civilians is heavily restricted. A number of coastal artillery guns are emplaced there.
The name "Mac Elliott", used in 19th and early 20th centuries, is associated with two apocryphal stories about a person with this name, either shipwrecked or landed on the island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mäkiluoto” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations