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

Huitaperi

All the aiming devices of the southern fells, the belfry of the Tornio Church, the Aavasaksa fell, the sign of the base line at Luppiovaara and the Horilankero fell were visible from this fell. The device was put up by Maupertuis and Camus.

Huitaperi - 10th July 1736
After taking repose, and eating some milk, at Cainunkyla, we left it at ten o'clock. We proceeded in the boat a league farther ; after which we left the river to cross the woods and rocks between it and the summit of Cuitaperi, which we did not reach until Sunday morning, the fifteenth, at three o'clock. (Outhier, Journal of a voyage to the north 1736-1737, p. 280)

Huitaperi