The long arc of the Pathfinder

Imago Mundi

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 220-226

  Cloud, John ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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MARS PATHFINDER;

EID: 33745313522     PISSN: 03085694     EISSN: 14797801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085690600687271     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. The comment appears on the map 'The World War Two Log of the U.S.S. Pathfinder' (undated), which was produced by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey to commemorate the vessel and its crew (Rare Book Room, NOAA Central Library).
2. Rear Admiral Sigmund R. Petersen et al., Pathfinder: Recollections of Those Who Served, 1942-1971 (Washington, DC, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of NOAA Corps Operations, 1994).
3. K. T. Adams, Hydrographic Manual, rev. ed. of Special Publication Number 143 (Washington, DC, US Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1942).
4. H.O. Field Chart No. 1041: Lifu-Uvea Passage, Loyalty Islands (US Navy Hydrographic Office, 1943). This field chart was published on board the USS Pathfinder, and the only surviving copy is in the Rare Book Room NOAA Central Library.
5. H.O. Field Chart No. 1017: Efate Island, North Shore. Undine Bay, Southern Portion. New Hebrides Group (US Navy Hydrographic Office, 1944). This field chart was also published on board the USS Pathfinder, and the one surviving copy is in the Rare Book Room, NOAA Central Library.
6. Nicolas H. Heck, Description of Long Wire Drag (Washington, DC, Department of Commerce and Labor, US Coast & Geodetic Survey, Hydrography Division, 1910).
7. Petersen, 'NOAA Corps history of the wartime experiences of the USS Pathfinder', in Peterson, Pathfinder: Recollections of Those Who Served (see note 2), unpaginated.
8. Rear Admiral Harold J. Seaborg, 'Pathfinder: The chronicle of a survey ship', in Petersen, Pathfinder: Recollections of Those Who Served (see note 2), unpaginated.
9. Charles Burroughs, a retired NOAA Corps officer who had served on the Pathfinder in the Alaska Survey work in the late 1960s, was among those who attended the 21st International Conference on the History of Cartography, Budapest, 2005. The brass knobs on the instruments in the wheelhouse were polished by generations of his predecessors as they found the path through the waters of the Pacific.
10. Names and positions are from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Features, accessible at .
11. William M. Gibson, 'Submarine topography in the Gulf of Alaska', Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 71:7 (1960): 1087-1107.