• @grue
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    1 year ago

    Because that’s not a little island; it’s the northeast chunk of Ireland. I guess it just sorts of fades away instead of showing the whole landmass because only lighthouses in Northern Ireland are within the UK.

    • The Octonaut
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      51 year ago

      (I’m from Ireland, I was making a little joke about being erased from the map. We have lighthouses too, and they’re even also managed by the RNLI)

        • The Octonaut
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          29 months ago

          Of the UK? Not as often as we’d like. This one particular circumstance it would have made sense to have a map of UK & Ireland though, as by removing land from a map of lighthouses… well, rocks rarely respect exclusive economic zones.