VASS

ALTERNATE NAME/NUMBER - 2449

75º 06' 04.549" S

128º 44' 18.779" W

886.8 Meters

MARIE BYRD LAND CONTROL

Flood Range to Mount Murphy Area

1967-68 Season

Engineers: Jack Harry, Charles Henkle, Lenny Hill, Tom Taylor

Terrestrial survey network employing Wild T-2 theodolite for angular measurements and Electro-tapes for distance measurements.

DKM-3A used for astro measurements.

Located approximately 75 km N. of the Mc Cuddin Mountains and 60 km SW of Cole Point on Dean Island on the highest snow drift in a heavily crevassed area, unmonumented snow station.

Survey mark - 2" x 2" wooden stake set in snow.

Horizontal Datum - Position based on the Astronomic Position of Snoopy Astro determined during the 1966-67 Season.

Surveyed on 30 November 1967.

Vertical Datum - Mean sea level

Image Views

FULL Scene (185 km x 185 km)

Landsat 4: LT5015114008635710

Path 015 Row 114 - 23 December 1986

Quad map outlined in red. Up in image is roughly 35 degrees True.

Sun elev: 27 deg / Sun azimuth: 78 deg

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B&W: 460K jpeg (12 pixels/inch)

Control point was established in 1967 on a moving ice sheet and the Landsat imagery taken in 1986. The coordinate values established in 1967 would be of no value for imagery taken after that date.

Aerial photos

No vertical photography available.

Oblique (1)

from TMA1627-45L

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Oblique (2)

from TMA1628-124R

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Oblique (3)

from TMA1629-194R

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