• grue@lemmy.world
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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.

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      1 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)

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        9 months ago

        Don’t you you guys get erased off maps often?

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          9 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.