Cairn of the three kingdoms

The cairn of the three kingdoms is a monument materializing a Tripoint, the intersection of the Frontière S between the Finland, the Norway and the Sweden.

Name

In Swedish, the monument names Treriksröset ; in Norwegian Treriksrøysa ; in Finnish Kolmen Valtakunnan Rajapyykki and in same Golmma riikka urna .

These names can result in “cairn of the three kingdoms” and refer to the first monument set up at this place at the end it 19th century to indicate the borders between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden and the empire of Russia, which managed the territory of Finland then.

Description

The cairn of the three kingdoms is located in Lapland by, on the territory of the Finnish municipality of Enontekiö, of the common Norwegian of Storfjord and of the common Sweden of Kiruna. It constitutes the most septentrional point of Sweden and the most Western point of continental Finland. The inhabited place nearest is the Finnish village of Kilpisjärvi, in the municipality of Enontekiö.

The monument in him even with the shape of a concrete dome painted in yellow, placed at ten meters of the shore of the Lake Goldajärvi and accessible by a pontoon out of wooden.

History

The first memorial of the tripoint was a Cairn set up in 1897 by the governments of Norway and Russia, which then managed the Grand-duché of Finland. At that time, the Swedish government had not found an agreement with the Norwegian government about the border and Sweden added its stone only in 1901.

The current monument was built in 1926.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

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