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NASA GSFC Ref Pt H -- Cooper's Island Nature Reserve, St George's Parish BM - U.S. Benchmarks on Waymarking.com
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NASA GSFC Ref Pt H -- Cooper's Island Nature Reserve, St George's Parish BM
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N 32° 20.928 W 064° 39.231
20S E 344369 N 3580300
Sixth of six Non-NGS joint NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center benchmark disks on a long concrete wharf at what was formerly a US Navy base in Bermuda. These BMs were used for tracking the Space Shuttle.
Waymark Code:
WMNF22
Location:
Bermuda
Date Posted:
03/03/2015
Published By:
Ernmark
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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 H 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. H, 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. H 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 H 1991
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
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A 'distant' photo including the mark in the view is highly recommended. Include the compass direction you faced when you took the picture.
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