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A scheme of second order triangulation composed of check figures was executed
hy,from a second order base line on Runit Island,
The scheme extende northward to
-. Bogallua Island and southward to Eniwetok Island.
The survey was for the purpose -
of coordinating local surveys on project islends and to establiah distances and
i azimuths between certain installations.
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Standard procedure and specifications of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey x a8
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The geometry
: _of the scheme was checked by the Los Angeles Office of that organization before [ os
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The scheme was so executed that it can be expanded to include the complete
atoll and where possible the permanency of ststion locations was considered.
~~ gtation markers on project islands were referenced.
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Referencing of the two stations
7 Ain the lagoon and on the sand spits south of Runit Were not pratical.
Two previous surveys have been made of the eastern portions of the atoll.
As
stated in the reconnaissance report of January 7, 1949 these surveys were not
readily adapted to the requirements of this project and were necessar&ly reoccupied
to expand the present scheme,
The U.S.5. BCWDITCH SURVEY made in 1944 was of third order accuracy and covered
the eastern portion of the atoll from Igurin to Bogumbogo.
was hydrographic charte of the atoll,
The apparent purpose
It included a base line on Runit Island and
control points on eleven other islands, also a station in the lagoon in the vic~
inity of the existing station, Coral,
The geographical position of station Korth
Base on Runit Island and the azimuth of the base line between st«tions North Base
and South Base were determined by astronomical observations.
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procedure in January of this year.
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z for second order triangulation was the criteria for this survey.
As most of the sta-
tions on this survey were not on project islands anc the reoceupation of its stations would have been necessary in any case for system expansion the values found
in th e U.S.S. Bowditch Survey were not incorporated into the present survey, except
that the Joint Task Force Seven Survey determination of the latitude and longitude
of. station Runit was based on the original geographical position of station North