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The view from Round Top in the Sierra Nevada looking to the east over ajumble of mountain ranges in the Basin and Range Province

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Description

The view from Round Top in the Sierra Nevada looking to the east over ajumble of mountain ranges in the Basin and Range Province. This was thelocation of William Eimbeck's great life work of surveying the 39th Parallelacross the Great Basin from Round Top to the Front Range of the RockyMountains.

Credit

Collection of NOAA/NOS/National Geodetic Survey William H. Burger Album

Location

California, Sierra Nevada, Round Top

Collection

Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey

Keywords

Coast and Geodetic Survey