27MM+88 Åvži, Norway
The BÄLJATZ-VAARA point is also located on an elevation, 90 meters above the forest line, so there are no trees near the point. It is marked by a pyramid made of stacked stones and two metal markers installed 10 meters from it.
The path leads from the small village of Avzi, located 2.5 km from the point. The elevation difference from the nearest road in Avzi is about 250 meters. The estimated travel time from the road to the point is one hour. From the summit, there is a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape.
The Struve Arc, once known as the "Russian" and later the "Russo-Scandinavian Meridian Arc," is one of UNESCO's World Heritage monuments. The arc consists of 265 triangulation points, where measurements were conducted from 1816 to 1852 that allowed the precise determination of the Earth's size and shape.
The reference points of this triangulation network were marked in various ways on the ground: hollows carved into rocks, iron crosses, stone pyramids, or specially installed obelisks. Often they were marked with sandstone bricks laid at the bottom of a pit; sometimes it was a granite cube with a cavity filled with lead, placed in a pit with cobblestones.
During the project to include the Struve Arc in the UNESCO list, which lasted 8 years, special search and geodetic work was undertaken in each country to locate the original points. All information from all the countries of the Struve Arc was collected, structured, and standardized.
Not all of the original points were found during the special search and geodetic work carried out in recent years with active cooperation from scientists of the interested countries, and many of them were found to be heavily damaged. Therefore, only the best-preserved points—34 in total—were included in the World Heritage site.
Sources:
http://www.gototrip.com/publications/geodezicheskaya-duga-struve
