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HORIZONTAL CONTROL - ENIWETOK ATOLL M.I.
1957 EXPANSION

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A network of horizontal control stations was established in
1949-5C to cover the eastern portion of the Atoll.

It consisted

of a primary net of second order triangulation stations, supplemental with third order stations at locations of lesser importance.
Standard procedures of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey were
carefully followed in executing the survey.

Expansion surveys

were completed in 1951, 1952, 1955 and in 1957 to establish additional stations and replace stations destroyed by test operations.
The network now encompasses the Atoll and includes sixteen stations
to second order specifications and eleven to third order accuracy.

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A third order survey had been completed in 1944 by the

USS Bowditch to control hydrographic mapping of the Atoll. This

was followed in 1947-48 by a second order scheme of limited area

Pacific Southwest Region

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Some features of two previous surveys were utilized in the

by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.

As the distribution of the

existing stations of these surveys did not meet project requirements, and one end station of the base line had been destroyed, a
substantially new and stronger scheme was necessary which could be
expanded as required.
A base line for the net extended from station RUNIT on site
YVONNE to a new station NORTH BASE #2 at the north end of the
island.

Station RUNIT was common to both the USS Bowditch and

the USC & GS surveys.
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