Suomen leijona

Suomen leijona (Swedish: Finlands lejon), The Lion of Finland, is a marker light and radio beacon in the Northern Baltic Sea operated by the Finnish Maritime Administration, located approximately 46 km (25 nmi; 29 mi) Southwest of the island of Utö, six kilometers outside the Finnish territorial waters but inside the country's exclusive economic zone.

[1] The original Suomen leijona (Swedish: Finlands lejon), The Lion of Finland, was a caisson lighthouse; a steel tower resting on a concrete caisson, equipped with a helicopter platform and powered by a wind generator.

The lighthouse had a futuristic design with a helipad on the top of a downward tapering tower, which made great demands on the foundation and the bottom of the tower.

In 1992 it was discovered that the foundation had been under-mined and that the lighthouse was threatening to collapse.

Deemed too dangerous to repair the lighthouse, it was demolished in 2005 and replaced by the much smaller, marker light / radio beacon.