Mortuis

Mortuis is a memorial in , . Mortuis is situated nearby to the building , as well as near .
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Artwork type: sculpture
  • Description: memorial commemorating the Vallisaari explosion of 1937 on Suomenlinna, Finland
  • Inscription: “1808, 1855, 1906, 1917, 1918, 1937”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Finnish submarine Vesikko and Susisaari.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Vesikko is a submarine, which was launched on 10 May 1933 at the Crichton-Vulcan dock in . Until 1936 it was named by its yard number CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype, being the prototype for the German Type II submarines. is situated 230 metres northeast of Mortuis.

Island
Photo: Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0.
is an island.

Museum
Photo: Jisis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 300 metres north of Mortuis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Suomenlinna and Kaivopuisto.

Suburb
Photo: Michal.pise, CC BY 2.0.
South Helsinki is in this guide defined as the part of south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets. It also includes the archipelago south of Helsinki, such as the islands.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, GFDL.
, nicknamed Kaivari in Finnish or Brunsan in Swedish, is one of the oldest and best known in central , , and also a neighbourhood of about 500 inhabitants where the park is located.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is in this guide defined as the part of south of the Esplanadi and Bulevardi streets. It also includes the archipelago south of Helsinki, such as the Suomenlinna islands.

Mortuis

Latitude
60.14148° or 60° 8′ 29″ north
Longitude
24.98606° or 24° 59′ 10″ east
Inception
1951
Open location code
9GG64XRP+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1373280436
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q25453630
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Satellite Map

Discover Mortuis from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Swedish—“Mortuis” goes by many names.
  • Finnish: “Mortuis”
  • Finnish: “Muistokivi Mortuis”
  • Swedish: “Mortius”

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Highlights include Von Schantz Villa and Suomenlinna beach.

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