United Nations Peacekeeping Forces Memorial - Bergen, Norway
N 60° 23.957 E 005° 19.163
32V E 297253 N 6701544
This memorial is located outside the Bergenhus Fortress Museum in Bergen, Norway.
Waymark Code: WMPDXZ
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Date Posted: 08/15/2015
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The memorial was created by Arne Mæland in 2005 and consists of a rectangular stone with an inset map of the world embedded in it. On top of the stone are steel bars rising into the sky. Beneath the inset world map is a plaque that reads (in Norwegian):
Med Forsvaret i Fredens Tjeneste
Ved unionsoppløsningen 1905
I internasjonale operasjoner
som observatører og i
væpnede styrker siden 1947
Nobels fredspris ble tildelt
FNs fredsbevarende styrker i 1988
[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]
With the Armed Forces in the Service of Peace
By the Union in 1905
in international operations
as observers and in the
armed forces since 1947
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to
The UN peacekeeping forces in 1988
Another plaque on the left side of the monument reads (in Norwegian):
Reist av Bergen og Hordaland FN-veteranforening
24.oktober 2005
med støtte fra
Forsvaret
FN-Veteranenes Landsforbund
Tysklandsbrigadens veteranforening i Bergen
[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]
Erected by Bergen and Hordaland UN Veterans
October 24th 2005
with support from
Armed Forces
UN Veterans Association
German National Brigadens Veterans Association in Bergen