Event NameFederated Mountain Clubs of NZ| Tararua Antarctic Expedition 1962/63| NorthAbstractThe general aim of the field survey work of the expedition was to provide ground control in the form of a triangulation network with heighting. Based on this| detailed topography could be ploetted in from the US Navy Trimetrogon photos |and our phototheodolite panoramas. before entering the field| it was known that the points visible from our survey stations would include intersected points of the US Geologocal Survey Tellurometer Survey. We propsed to use these points | to fix our triangulated network. In addition we proposed to make astro observations at a limited number of glacier stations to provide an indepandant fix. The tiangulation network was to have two baselines| one on the plateau near the depot and one in the lower Pearl Harbour Glacier. Heighting control was to be attempted aneroid altitudes from teh two aeroplane landings| continued by Paulin aneroid. We also aimed to connect our triangulation network to Fitzgerald's previous survey (NZ Geological Survey Expedition 1957-58) in the lower Tucker Glacier. We hoped that from the plateau we could occupy peaks as high as any in the area| thus establishing our survey over an area large relative to the distances travelled.LocationsCrosscutt PeakAorangi PeakMt WattToboggan gapHead PeakMt TararuaTucker GlacierMillen RangeGeolocation[1] PositionSeason1962-1963
