SIPLE 1

ALTERNATE NAME/NUMBER - DOPPLER ID 80677

73º 32' 36.463" S

127º 27' 39.858" W

168.8 Meters

ICE-BREAKER "POLAR SEA II"

1983-84 Season

Engineers: William Harris and Ralph Vomaske

Doppler - Sattelite Survey

Located on Siple Island at the W end of on the second knoll E of the extreme SW end of Lovill Bluff, monumented station.

Survey mark - Standard USGS tablet wired to spike driven onto crack in bedrock, stamped "SIPLE NO 1 1983-1984".

Station ZIMMERMAN 1991-92 is set in the vecinity of SIPLE NO 1 1983-84. Ground crew unable to recover spike and tablet that identified the position of SIPLE NO 1 and a new monumented station was set.

Surveyed on 22 February 1984.

Horizontal Datum - WGS-72

Vertical Datum - Mean sea level

Image Views

FULL Scene (185 km x 185 km)

Landsat 4: LT4232113009002410

Path 232 Row 113 - January 24 1990

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

Sun elev: 24º / Sun azimuth: 74º

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B&W: 428K jpeg (12 pixels/inch)

Regional View

28 km x 28 km (701 x 701 pixels)

Box indicates position of local chip

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Local Chip

2.5 km x 2.5 km (69 x 69 pixels)

Centered on control point pixel

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Aerial photos

Vertical

from TMA 2546-170V

approx 4 km x 4 km

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Local Chip

101 x 101 pixels

Centered on control point

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Vertical

from TMA 2650-122V

approx 4 km x 4 km

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Local Chip

101 x 101 pixels

Centered on control point

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Oblique (1)

from TMA 1627-88R

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Oblique (2)

from TMA 1770-28R

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