Struve Geodetic Arc
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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 kilometres, which yielded the first accurate mea
The northernmost station of the Struve Geodetic Arc is located in Fuglenes, Norway.
Tartu Old Observatory, the first point of the arc.
Point Z, situated on Hogland, Russia.
The commemorative plaque of the arc in Felshtyn, Ukraine
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his
Struve Geodetic Arc
…1,750 mi), which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc. The chain was established and used by the German-born Russian scientist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve in the years 1816 to 1855 to establish the exact size and shape of the earth. At that time, the chain passed merely through three countries: Norway…
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve