UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries and over 2,820 km.
These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve,
which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian. This helped to establish the exact size and shape of the planet and marked an important
step in the development of earth sciences and topographic mapping. It is an extraordinary example of scientific collaboration among scientists from different countries,
and of collaboration between monarchs for a scientific cause. The original arc consisted of 258 main triangles with 265 main station points. The listed site includes 34 of
the original station points, with different markings, i.e. a drilled hole in rock, iron cross, cairns, or built obelisks.
Countries involved---
Belarus
Estonia
Finland
Latvia. NEED ONE
Lithuania
Norway NEED ONE
Republic of Moldova
Russian Federation
Sweden NEED ONE
Ukraine
Date of Inscription: 2005
Ref: 1187
Postal stamps issued by Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Sweden, Ukraine.
Commemorative coins for the Struve Geodetic Arc issued by -Belarus, Moldova.
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