Where is the National Monument known as McLear's Beacon, first established in 1844 and still used as a triangulation station by cartographers?
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa The Beacon is a pile of rocks built for Britain's Astronomer Royal, Thomas McLear, in 1844 to be used to confirm and possibly expand on existing data on the curvature of the earth.
Emperor Napoleon III commissioned what monument from the sculptor Aimé Millet, which was installed in 1865 in Alise-Sainte-Reine, Burgundy, France?
