10 black & white photos and contour maps of Mauna Kea summit area including Lake Waiau (see abstract for details)

Author:

n/a

Title:

10 black & white photos and contour maps of Mauna Kea summit area including Lake Waiau (see abstract for details)

Year:

1964

Volume:

V1

Pages:

1-10

Subject:

Photographs Lake Waiau Wildlife Mauna Kea Summit Volcanic deposits Mauna Kea aerial view Puu Poliahu Hale Pohaku base camp Maps

Summary:

Figure 1. Six mile new road from Halepohaku base camp to Mauna Kea Observatory with proposed 60-inch site marked as dot. Figure 2. Mauna Kea summit area. 4 inches equal 1 mile. Proposed 60-inch site marked by cross with new access road indicated. Present test observatory on Puu Poliahu. Lake Waiau has potable water. Figure 3. Aerial view of Puu Poliahu, 13,631 feet, showing NASA sponsored test observatory. (No Figure 4) Figure 5. Summit area of Mauna Kea with site test mountain at left and Mauna Kea summit at extreme right. Looking north. Road shown at base of prominent cinder cone at right. Two contour maps of summit area, Plan 1 and Plan 2. Photo 1. View of the proposed observatory site on Mauna Kea, elevation 13,631 feet, the second highest point of the central Mauna Kea group and the only one that is not a crater cone but a peak. Photo 2. Same, left flank. The white material is not snow, but light-colored volcanic deposits. Dominant color of the peak is light brown. Photo 3. The foreground in photographs 1 and 2 was glaciated during the Pleistocene. One can avoid the moraines by winding up the mountain from the left, off the picture. Views 1 and 2 were taken from 13,440 feet, from a cone, the top of which is shown on 3. The person there is Mr. Lyman Nichols, District Wildlife Biologist, State of Hawaii. The background of 3 shows the principal cone of Mauna Kea and the summit in back of 13,796 feet. The trail in the middle can be used for hiking only. Photo 4. View from the same crater cone as shown on 3, looking back and down on Lake Waiau, 13,020 feet above sea level. The ridge just beyond it, elevated 13,180 feet, might be considered as a substitute for the 13,631-foot peak shown on plates 1 and 2. The clouds below are over the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

Collection:

Akiyama