Puntukas
The Puntukas is the second largest boulder in Lithuania , which was moved from what is now Finland to the Anykščiai area around 18,000 years ago . It has a weight of around 265 tons and the dimensions (6.90 × 6.70 × 5.70) meters³, its volume is around 100 cubic meters.
The stone carved on the front serves today to commemorate the Lithuanian -US pilots Darius and Girėnas, who died while crossing the Atlantic . In 1943 the sculptor B. Pundzius chiseled the relief; this took him half a year. Until 1957 the boulder was considered the largest of its kind in Lithuania. He was replaced in this order by the larger Puokė near Barstyciai in the Žemaitija National Park .
Web links
Commons : Puntukas - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baltic States. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Koenigsberg area. 6th edition, completely revised and redesigned. Baedeker, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-8297-1052-6 , p. 347 .
- ↑ Mokslai.lt, Lithuania ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bodo Thöns: Discovering Lithuania. Europe's new center in the Baltic States. 3rd, revised edition. Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-094-9 , p. 272 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 29 ′ 3 ″ N , 25 ° 3 ′ 31 ″ E