Alongside Struve’s meridian arc: symbolic reflections of memories

• Main Author: Arntzen, Knut Ove
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Dialogic space; Geodetic measurement; Meridian Arc Monument in Hammerfest (Fuglenes); Nomadism; Dialoginė erdvė; Geodeziniai matavimai; Meridiano lanko monumentas Hamerfeste; Nomadizmas; 008 Civilizacija. Kultūra / Civilization. Culture; Arba; Barents Sea; Struve; The Monument; Finnmark; Hammerfest
• Online Access: https://eltalpykla.vdu.lt/1/32085; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/32085

The German-Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) took 39 years, from 1816 to 1855, to accomplish the project of measuring the meridian arc named after him from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea. The monument to this endeavor in Hammerfest, Finnmark, is one of the few memorials...