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The Three-Country Cairn (Finnish: Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki, Northern Sami: Golmma riikka urna, Norwegian: Treriksrøysa, Swedish: Treriksröset) is the tripoint at which the international borders of Sweden, Norway and Finland meet, and the name of the monument that marks the point. It is the northernmost international tripoint in the world.
Treriksrøysa (lit. ' Three-Country Cairn ') is a cairn which marks the tripoint where the borders between Norway, Finland, and Russia meet. The site is on a hill called Muotkavaara, [1] in the Pasvikdalen valley, west of the Pasvikelva river and 15 km (9 mi) southwest of Nyrud just west of Krokfjellet in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn [Note 1] is a historic photograph taken on 27 April 1945, which was the last day of the Second World War in Finland. It depicts a Finnish Army patrol of Battle Group Loimu, Infantry Regiment 1 ( Finnish : taisteluosasto Loimu, jalkaväkirykmentti 1 ), raising the Finnish war flag on the three-country ...
A cairn marking a mountain summit in Graubünden, Switzerland. The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea. A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). [1]
A disputed tripoint between Syria, Israel, and Jordan. A triple border, tripoint, [citation needed] trijunction, [1] triple point, or tri-border area is a geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or subnational entities meet.
A Finnish patrol hoists a flag at the Three-Country Cairn on 27 April 1945 after the TK men had brought a larger flag and a better flagpople and organised the soldiers for the photograph.
Within three years three road tunnels, namely Eastern Harbour Crossing (1989), Tseung Kwan O Tunnel (1990) and Tate's Cairn Tunnel (1991) would open, each putting extra pressures to the existing road system of Kwun Tong. According to a government estimate, the traffic volume in the area would see a sixfold rise upon the opening of the three ...
Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail. A blaze in the beginning meant "a mark made on a tree by slashing the bark" (The Canadian Oxford Dictionary).