Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
Page 23
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by American Museum of Natural History Library. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
bearing of 334° is part of Pare and represents the approach slopes of Macpays Peak (Austin); the single hill next, also marked 'a' corresponds in bearing with the isolated conical hill Mnt. Karik (Karrik); [illegible] the long, distant range, again marked 'a' is, I believe, a part of the Dap Range; and the faintly indicated distant range beyond Mnt Blucher between 34° & 38° indicates the connection of Blucher with the Dap by way of Mnt Turgom. The assumption is necessary in dealing with Macpays's published work that the bearings shown on his diagrams are 'true'. If they were magnetic, and the bearing for the western tip of Blucher were thus 16° 'true' instead of 20° the ray from would in no place approach the Palmer River closer than one and a half miles, whereas it is clear from his text that the views were had from the river itself. Taking the foregoing facts into consideration I feel convinced that the Victor Emanuel River was nearly Macpays was equivalent to the 9000-foot Dap range with