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- Title
French Geodetic and Scientific Expedition to Lapland.
- Authors
SOLARIĆ, Miljenko; SOLARIĆ, Nikola
- Abstract
The paper describes surveying a part of the meridian arc in Lapland (border of Sweden and Finland). The field team had great difficulty with the climate and terrain configuration. However, they managed to prove that the Earth is roughly shaped as a rotational ellipsoid and confirm theoretical assumptions on Newton and Huygens that the arc length of one meridian degree near a pole is greater than at smaller latitudes.
- Subjects
MERIDIANS (Geodesy); GEODESY; TERRAIN mapping; INTERNATIONAL Date Line; LATITUDE
- Publication
Cartography & Geoinformation / Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2015, Vol 14, Issue 24, p32
- ISSN
1333-896X
- Publication type
Article