HOLMES & NARVER, INC.
ENGINEERS - CONSTRUCTORS
JOB 942
RECOVERY
NAME OF STATION
ESTABLISHED By
NOTE -TRIANGULATION
Japtan
sire
H&N
RECOVERED BY. E. E. Snyder
FIELO BOOK NO. 263 PAGE 29-30
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year 1951
STATION
David
Japtan Island
YEAR: 1956
DATE. 12-8-56
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
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“DISTANCES _ (AND DIRECTIONS _TO
REFERENCE“MARKS
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_OBJECT== |_—iDISTANCE =| DIRECTIONaf ELEVATION
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Japtan
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RM #1
FM #2
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i 45,58 : 13.892 |
-* $0.21 | 15.304 |
26.46
RM #3
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BRIEF HISTORY
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101 = 54 = 05
208 ~ 00 - 15
258 ~ 20 - 52.5
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STATION:
This statio was included in the 1952 Expansion as a third Order Station.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
OF
STATION:
This station was recovered in good condition.
The station mark is an aluminum
pipe capped with an aluminum cap 2-1/2" in diameter, stamped "Japtan, H&N, 1954".
It is set in a concrete monument flush with the ground surface in a 20! diameter
depression in the ground.
Reference markers #1, #2 and #3 were all recovered undisturbed in the locations
given in F.B. 227, pages 7 and 8.
They are standard 2-5/8" diameter brass discs,
set in concrete, marked "RM 1 (2 & 3)-d&N-1954".
RM #1 is 1-1/2 ft. telow the surface of the ground.