Burton Island (1948) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination

[Randi]

Great!

[Michael]

[ibazel]

Sept + Nov are (finally!) done

[Randi]

Ready for Michael

[Michael]

I'm working on Onondaga 4,000 locations done, 3,500 to go. After that it's Kearsarge, then I'll get to this one.

[Michael]

I was looking up Little America on Google, because it wasn't in Geonames! It turns out there were five of them. Because they were built on sea ice, they gradually disappeared. Anyway, while looking them up in Wikipedia, I discovered there was a U.S. Navy documentary, about 1 hour 10 minutes long. You can see it on Youtube or on the Internet Archive. The first version has the usual add at the start, and you get an add if you jump ahead. It also has an annoying black box with the run time showing. The Internet Archive version is a little blurry, but there are no adds and no black box. The link for the search is here.

The Wikipedia article has some interesting detail about Operation Highjump and other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Am ... tion_base)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump

[Michael]

Here's an image of Little America IV.

[Michael]

The voyage for 1948 has been completed, with many thanks to:

• AdamWestMo;
• FutureOceasnScientist;
• Bryan;
• OG2617;
• mfpif;
• ibhazel;
• Komodo137; and,
• mecordova

Once again, we see that the transcribers do a much more accurate job than the typists, who littered the logs with many errors.

You can see a plot of the voyage here and, for more details you can download the KML file and view it with Google Earth. There were a few mentions of people, posted here.

These are the weather statistics for this voyage:

• 8540 records for DirT
• 8535 records for Kts
• 8729 records for Baro
• 24 records for Attd
• 8701 records for Dry
• 8687 records for Wet
• 2818 records for Water
• 866 records for SeaT
• 8488 records for Weather
• 6787 records for Low
• 2050 records for Mid
• 825 records for High
• 8397 records for Ceil
• 7490 records for From
• 8180 records for Amount
• 8658 records for VisM

There were 97775 weather records for Burton_Island in 1948.
Burton_Island travelled a total of 26291 miles.

Burton Island went as far south as 78.32 degrees South, and as far north as 71.61 North!

[Randi]

Great Work
adamwestmo, Bryan, OG2617,
FutureOceanScientist, mfpif,
ibazel, Komodo137, mecordova,
and Michael !