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Meridian Monument - On the Fuglenes peninsula, just across the harbour, is the Meridianstøtta, Hammerfest, Norway. .
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Meridian Monument - On the Fuglenes peninsula, just across the harbour, is the Meridianstøtta, a marble column commemorating the first survey 1816–52 by Russian scientist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve to determine the arc of the global meridian and calculate the size and shape of the earth. It forms part of a Unesco World Heritage Site known as the Struve Geodetic Arc, Hammerfest, Norway.

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