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Monument · Rjukan, Norway

The Sun Mirrors

Three heliostats on the mountain throwing daylight into a square the sun cannot reach for six months.

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The Sun Mirrors is in Rjukan, and this is Rjukan — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 20 minutes · Winter only · 59.879°N, 8.593°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

The Bergen and Dovre railways are two of Europe's great train rides and cost less than the equivalent flight if booked early. All of Norway →

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Rjukan · Østlandet & the East · Norway

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Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Rjukan

Vemork

The heavy water plant sabotaged in 1943, with the pipeline the saboteurs climbed still on the cliff.

Museum

The record

What this atlas holds about The Sun Mirrors, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Monument
Give it
20 minutes
Season
Winter only
Where
59.879°N, 8.593°E
In
Rjukan