Fuglenes

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Fuglenes is a district in Hammerfest Municipality in Norway.{{cite web | title=Fuglenes, Norway | website=Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates | url=https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-394910&fid=4372&c=norway | access-date=2020-10-12}}{{cite web | author=The World Air Quality Index project | title=Air Pollution in Fuglenes, Hammerfest, Norway: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map | website=Beijing Air Pollution | date=2020-06-20 | url=https://aqicn.org/map/norway/norway/hammerfest/fuglenes/m/ | access-date=2020-10-12}} 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.

[https://www.altamuseum.no/en/altas-nyere-tids-historie/altas-historie/struve-1/kunsten-a-male-jorda-i-finnmark Alta Museum: The Art of Survey of the Earth from Finnmark]

==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, globe is an example of which styles von Hanno was inspired by.{{Cite web|date=|title=Hammerfest Turistas|url= http://www.hammerfest-turist.no/index.php?page_id=160 |url-status=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007154457/http://www.hammerfest-turist.no/index.php?page_id=160|archive-date=2007-10-07|access-date=19 June 2021|website=Wayback Machine}}

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.{{Cite web|date=|title=The Struve Geodetic Arc|url=https://en.visithammerfest.net/meridian-column|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728060941/https://en.visithammerfest.net/meridian-column|archive-date=28 July 2021|access-date=19 June 2021|website=Visit Hammerfest}}

The survey was initiated by Wilhelm Struve who received support from King Oscar I of Norway-Sweden and Alexander I of Russia.{{Cite web|date=|title=Struve Geodetic Arc|url= https://www.worldheritagesite.org/list/Struve+Geodetic+Arc |url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 June 2021|website=World Heritage Site}}

The meridian support is on the UNESCO list and is a protected cultural monument. The meridian support has the following inscription: [translated 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``".{{Cite web|date=|title=Struve Geodetic Arc|url= https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1187 |url-status=|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=19 June 2021|website=UNESCO}}