Finland is still rising out of the sea after the last ice age, so new land keeps appearing along its coast — but under Finnish law it does not automatically belong to whoever owns the shore in front of it

Along Finland’s west coast, new land keeps rising out of the sea. Around the Gulf of Bothnia, about 700 hectares of new land emerge every year, an area roughly twice the size of Central Park. Nobody builds it. The ground itself is still lifting out of the water, a slow leftover from the last ice [...] The post Finland is still rising out of the sea after the last ice age, so new land keeps appearing along its coast — but under Finnish law it does not automatically belong to whoever owns the shor