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    The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820...
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    initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor. He was born to the aristocratic Struve family at Altona, Duchy of Holstein (then...
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    completed survey triangulation measurements of the angular arc (named Struve Geodetic Arc). The measurements extended through over 2,820 km, from Hammerfest...
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  • Tallinn Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance...
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  • Riga Kuldīga Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance...
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  • Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural...
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  • Vilnius Curonian Spit Kernavė Kaunas Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World...
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    Viik, T (2006). "F. W. Bessel and geodesy". Struve Geodetic Arc, 2006 International Conference, The Struve Arc and Extensions in Space and Time, Haparanda...
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    arc measurement Norwood's arc measurement Boscovich and Maire's arc measurement Maclear's arc measurement Hopfner's arc measurement Struve Geodetic Arc...
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  • Rjukan–Notodden Alta Røros Urnes Vegaøyan Geirangerfjord Nærøyfjord Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
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  • Sammallahdenmäki Suomenlinna Kvarken Old Rauma Petäjävesi Old Church Verla Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
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    and the United Kingdom. More ambitious undertakings such as the Struve Geodetic Arc across Eastern Europe (1816-1855) and the Great Trigonometrical Survey...
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    Southern Öland High Coast Great Copper Mountain Varberg Radio Station Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
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    Viik, T (2006). "F. W. Bessel and geodesy". Struve Geodetic Arc, 2006 International Conference, The Struve Arc and Extensions in Space and Time, Haparanda...
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    Rudi Geodetic Point (Romanian: Punctul Geodezic Rudi) is a point of the Struve Geodetic Arc in Rudi, Moldova. There is also an obelisk. Rudi Geodetic Point...
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  • Landscapes of Dauria and Uvs Nuur Basin are shared with Mongolia, and the Struve Geodetic Arc is shared with nine European countries. UNESCO lists sites under...
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    internationally for its connection to Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and the Struve Geodetic Arc, of which it is the first reference point. The Tartu Observatory...
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    Since 1826, the hill Mäkiinpäällys has two of the points in the Struve Geodetic Arc. Gogland has a humid continental climate (Dfb) with oceanic influences...
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    Triangulation of Great Britain Meridian arc History of geodesy History of the metre Seconds pendulum Struve Geodetic Arc 48°50′11″N 2°20′14.025″E / 48.83639°N...
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    Aavasaksa (category Struve Geodetic Arc)
    Struve Geodetic Arc. As a result of this, UNESCO named Aavasaksa a World Heritage Site, along with the 33 other sites used in the Struve Geodetic Arc...
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  • other three are cultural. In addition to Białowieża Forest, the Struve Geodetic Arc is also a transnational site, and is shared with nine other countries...
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  • Struve Struve (crater), a crater on the Moon Struve functions, named after Karl Hermann Struve Struve Geodetic Arc, a World Heritage Site Otto Struve...
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    Norway. It is the location of the northernmost point of the Struve Geodetic Arc. It is a geodetic point, one of the 34 points selected for the World Heritage...
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  • Kyiv Residence of Metropolitans Lviv Odesa Chersonesus Struve Geodetic Arc The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...
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    shared between Austria, Germany and Slovakia. The cultural site Struve Geodetic Arc is shared among Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway...
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  • meridian (West Europe-Africa Meridian-arc) French Geodesic Mission to Lapland French Geodesic Mission Struve Geodetic Arc Rectifying latitude Geodesics on...
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  • Viik, T, F. W. Bessel and Geodesy, vol. Struve Geodetic Arc, 2006 International Conference, The Struve Arc Extension in Space and Time, Haparanda and...
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    Ashmyany (category Struve Geodetic Arc)
    Ashmyany or Oshmyany is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Vilnius in Lithuania, and serves as the administrative...
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  • Hungary), Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski (Germany and Poland), the Struve Geodetic Arc (ten countries in Northern and Eastern Europe), and Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří...
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    Castle, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha (shared with Poland), and the Struve Geodetic Arc (shared with nine other countries). Belarus portal Europe portal...
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