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Fuglenes
Sign in to saveFuglenes is a district in Hammerfest Municipality in 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 List. It was here that Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve's surveys ended in 1852.
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Fuglenes is a district in Hammerfest Municipality in 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 List. It was here that Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve's surveys ended in 1852.
==The meridian support== The meridian support was designed by Wilhelm von Hanno and erected in 1854 to commemorate the largest international measurement of the Earth's shape and size. The meridian support with plinth, column, chapter, and globe is an example of the styles von Hanno was inspired by.
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