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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.
Bilingual Finnish/Swedish sign showing 200 metres until entering Sweden from Finland, Tornio customs station (Tornion tulliasema) "Three-Country Cairn" on the boundary between Finland, Sweden and Norway. Resurgent Sweden and Russia clashed a number of times over the centuries. Most of the battles were fought on now-Finnish soil.
Moscow Armistice, Lapland War; Risto Ryti. 63,204 [4] Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War
Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden and Finland on 27 April 1945 after the end of the Lapland War and thus, the end of World War II in Finland The Soviet Karelian Front, led by General Kirill Meretskov , initiated its Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive and started to push the XIX Mountain Corps towards ...
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 ...
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