The Northern parts of the World Heritage Struve Geodetic Arc project team has gathered a huge amount of background information concerning the Struve Geodetic Arc, starting from archives and proceeding but not limited to many site visits and collaboration with experts....
At the Top of the World HeritageA brochure "Tornio and the measuring of the Earth" tells about triangulation measurements in Tornio area in the 1800s. The brochure can be downloaded as a pdf. This brochure was produced by the ‘Northern parts of the World Heritage...
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We are also beginning to post in different languages, however, project updates are mostly in English. After validating Struve Geodetic Arc related stories, we can finally serve you also in Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Northern Sami. Thank you for your patience!
Here in Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway, we have many places which helped people to define the exact size and shape of the Earth in past. 11 of them are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites! Still, there is only a limited number of cultural events, services and products related to Struve Geodetic Arc, and as lovely as the existing ones are, we believe there is potential for more. Do you agree? Spring 2021 will open up a chance to learn more about Struve Geodetic Arc, tourism development and networks working around this unique cultural heritage theme.
Suggest a name for the mobile adventure game about Struve Geodetic Arc journey in Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway!
The goal of Alatornio church modelling project is to produce a virtual reality scenario where the user will be able to experience how it was to measure landscape in the historical 1800 century environment. With the project we can raise awareness of the Struve Geodetic Arc excursion and how scientists and other people who joined the journey managed to do it all so many years ago.
