NASA GSFC Ref Pt G -- Cooper's Island Nature Reserve, St George's Parish BM - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com

Eight Non-NGS disks were located along a concrete retaining wall on board what is now the Cooper's Island Nature Reserve. Six are still there as of 2015; two are missing. All were monumented around the 1980s-1991 timeframe at what was then the US Navy Base at Kindley Field in Bermuda.

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration and the Goddard Space Flight Center set up a tracking station here in the 1960s for use with Apollo, Gemini, Mercury, and Skylab programs. These disks were most likely used as part of ground-tracking calculations for the various NASA space missions from the 1980s until the tracking station was abandoned.

These marks were not set by the NOAA, and are not listed in the NGS Database.

The waymarked disk is inscribed "NASA-GSFC" along the top curve. "Ref Pt G 1991" with a crossed arrow in the center occupies the center of the disk. "Greenbelt, MD" is inscribed at the bottom of the disk.

To reach NASA-GSFC Ref Pt. G, go to the Cooper's Island Nature Reserve and park outside the gate. Walk in on foot along Cooper's Island Road toward the Bird Lookout Tower. As you pass over a narrow neck of land to the tower, look left and right for two retaining walls on either side of the road. NASA-GSFC Ref Pt. G will be on your right, on the retaining wall along the short beach opposite Long Bay.

Condition: Mark found in good condition Designation: Ref Pt G Benchmark Agency: other (not included below) Benchmark Agency (if other): NASA-GSFC Monumentation type: REFERENCE MARK Disk County: St George's Parish USGS 7.5' Topographic Quadrangle Name (optional): St. David's Island Special Category (if other): NASA-GSFC tracking station disks Find type: Found by luck/skill/knowledge Monumentation type (if other): Not listed Special category (optional): Not listed Web address of this benchmark's datasheet (optional): Not listed NGS PID: Not listed Local database's URL (optional): Not listed

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