OSLO: Norway confirms that for the centenary of Finland’s independence next year, it may move the border, gifting its Nordic neighbour a mountain peak that would be the country’s highest point. “There are a few formal difficulties and I have not yet made my final decision but we are looking into it,” Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg told NRK – the national broadcaster. The originator of the idea is a 76-year-old retired geophysicist and government surveyor, Bjørn Geirr Harsson, who learned last year that Finland would celebrate its 100th independence anniversary – from Russia – on December 6 of next year. As he flew over Halti in the 1970s, he said, the border’s location puzzled him. Harsson wrote to the ministry of foreign affairs in July 2015, pointing out that the gesture would cost Norway a ‘barely noticeable’ 0.015 sq km of its territory but would make Finland very happy. The border – a straight line drawn in the 1750s – was ‘geophysically illogical’, he told Norwegian media. However, it was unfortunate and unfair for Finland that its highest point was not even a proper peak, he added. The Foreign ministry, responding to Harsson, said that although it appreciated the suggestion, Article 1 of Norway’s constitution unfortunately stipulated that the country is a ‘free, independent, indivisible and inalienable realm.’ The Halti summit is 1,365 metres high and a kilometre inside Norway but by moving the border 40 metres further up the mountainside would put Hálditšohkka’s 1,331-metre summit in Finland – and make the country’s highest point seven metres higher.