Fiordland Mapping Project Begins
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, April 12. A start on the initial stages of mapping the Fiordland-West Coast sounds region and charting the coastline was made today.
A helicopter piloted by Mr R. Wilson, of Timaru, left Te Anau this morning with men and equipment to prepare the area from Te Anau to Martin’s Bay.
“This is the start of the eventual mapping of the whole of Fiordland,” Mr C. M. Rainsford, chief surveyor for the Lands and Survey Department in Invercargill said today.
Given fine weather, the
parties will take about a week to give fixed positions for the eventual mapping of an area linking Te Anau, the Eglinton and Hollyford valleys and Martin’s Bay. Later, aircraft from New Zealand Aerial Mapping, Ltd., which is under contract to the department, will map and photograph the pre-marked region.
Later still when the H.M.N.Z.S. Lachlan comes to chart the coast, she will have fixed positions to base her charting on. The Fiordland-West Coast sounds area is one of the few left in New Zealand where no reliable maps are available. The coast of Fiordland has never accurately been charted.
Fiordland Mapping Project Begins
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30724, 13 April 1965, Page 18
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