DEGREE MEASUREMENT EXPEDITION:
The measuring instruments
The measurements
The measurement sites
base line
Tornio
Kaakamavaara
Nivavaara
Huitaperi
Aavasaksa
Horilankero
Pullinki
Niemivaara
Kittisvaara

Horilankero

The aiming device was erected by de Maupertuis and Camus at the Horilankero fell. Trees had to be cut down on the top of the fell in connection to this. In August the device at the Horilankero fell burnt down and it had to be replaced.

Horilankero - 9th July 1736:
On their return from church , it was said that the forest of Horrilankero was on fire ; this turned out but too true: after dinner we saw from the top of Avasaxa the smoke of the fire; it even prevented our observing the angles of the extremities of the base, or seeing Horrilankero.

Monday, the twentieth, the smoke was still thicker ; it was distinguishable in every quarter. In dry weather, as it was then, the mountains of the country often take fire, which communicates in an instant to the dry moss, and spreads prodigiously. (Outhier, Journal of a voyage to the north 1736-1737, pp. 290-291)

Horilankero