Where is geographical centre of europe

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The map references of their version of the centre of Europe are 54 degrees, 54 minutes latitude and 25 degrees, 19 minutes longitude. These references were defined only after a re-estimation of the boundaries of the European continent. The boundary of the continent runs along the Kara River, the highest crest of the Urals, along the Ural River and the Caspian Sea, along to the Apsheron Peninsula, over the highest crests of the Caucasus mountains, through the Black Sea and the channels of the Dardanelle and the Bosphorus, along the eastern shore of the Aegean — the border between Greece and Turkey — and through the Mediterranean Sea and the Gibraltar channel.

According to these estimates of the boundaries of Europe, the Canary Isles, Madeira and the Azores, were attached to Europe together with Iceland. The scientists did not take into account the location of Malta in the middle of the Mediterranean; however, this would change the location of the geographical centre of Europe by only metres.

After the centre was defined, the need for proper marking naturally arose. The first marker for the geographical centre, a stone with a metal plate, was placed on a hill near Bernotai in But unfortunately this monument has not survived intact. Some time passed before the Association of Lithuanian Geographers initiated the marking of the site with a nine-tonne boulder found in the local fields. Another metal plate with inscriptions was fixed on the stone. A reserve for the European Geographical Centre was arranged in It covered Girija Lake, Bernotai Hill and a burial ground for pagans called an alkakalnis, as well as surrounding woods and fields.

It is presumed that from the first to the fifth centuries a defensive castle stood on Bernotai Hill. Archaeologists have found stoneware with lined surfaces here. Every year the number of tourists visiting Lithuania is constantly growing. With this in mind, the State Tourism Department at the Ministry of Economy and the Vilnius District Administration began give the geographical centre of Europe greater visibility.

All Europeans are invited to visit the site of the geographical centre of Europe in Lithuania, at least once in their lives. View Iframe URL. View Purnuskes, Lithuania in a larger map. But in the case of Europe, even the most straightforward method, a simple geometric centroid, is fraught with ambiguity.

If so, which ones? Is Iceland in? There is also a wooden church of the Dormition of the Virgin, built in Farmers have gathered money and recently updated frontage. In Dilove there is a marble quarry. And the crumb of it was used in on Chornobyl NPP when there was an accident.

Marble absorbs radionuclides. In the middle of the last century in the tract Saulyak near Dilove a Russian geologist Hlynomedov found gold. The deposit is being develop by British and Australians. Mark Barabolya leading to gold mine. The village has a bakery, where bread is baked on the coals, two pharmacies, a branch of the Savings Bank, frontier, clinic and forestry. Here begins walking and car tours to Mount Pip Ivan.