Struve Geodetic Arc Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
meridian arc from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea
About Struve Geodetic Arc
The Struve Arc is achain of survey triangulationsstretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten 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 establish theexact size and shape of our planetand 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. Thelisted siteincludes 34 of the original station points, with diffe
Struve Geodetic Arc Travel Guide Sections
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