Fuglenes is a district in the municipality of

Hammerfest Hammerfest (; sme, Hámmerfeasta ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest is the northernmost town in the world with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hammerf ...

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. 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

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. It was here that Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve's surveys ended in 1852.

The meridian support

The meridian support was designed by

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and erected in 1854 to commemorate the largest international measurement of the earth's shape and size. The meridian support with plinth, column, chapter, globe is an example of which styles von Hanno was inspired by. The shelf is in three parts and in unpolished granite. While the two lower parts are almost square, the upper part is leaf-shaped, where the tip of the leaf forms corners and points towards the directions north, west, south and east. In a circular base on this upper part of the shelf rests the column. This polished granite column becomes slimmer in diameter with height. The survey was initiated by Wilhelm Struve who received support from King Oscar I of Norway-Sweden and

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of Russia. The meridian support is on the

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list and is a protected cultural monument. The meridian support has the following inscription: ranslated in English"The northernmost endpoint of a meridian arc of 25 ° 20`from the northern ocean to the Danube river - through Norway, Sweden and Russia. By arrangement of HM Oscar I and Emperors Alexander I and Nicolaus I by uninterrupted geometries. Latitude 70 ° 40` 11.3``".

Other notable buildings/landmarks

* Fuglenes Lighthouse, lighthouse which was established in 1859, and deactivated in 1911, when it was replaced by a light. * Fuglenes School (Norwegian ''skole''), public primary school which has 193 students in 8 school classes, from first to seventh grade. The school principal is Turid Leseth. * Skansen på Fuglenes, historic landmark.

Notable people

* Charles Robertson (1875–1958), Norwegian Minister of Trade 1926–1928.

References

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