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2. ARCHIPEL DE LA SOCIÉTÉ
Bellingshausen Atoll
15° 48' 32.7" S 154° 32' 02.3" W
Bora-Bora
16° 30' 25.8" S 151° 44' 57.5" W
Huahine
16° 42' 47.9" S 151° 02' 05.3" W
Maiao (
Tubuai – Manu
)
17° 38' 17.7" S 150° 38' 15.1" W
Maupiti
16° 26' 53.1" S 151° 14' 51.8" W
Meetia
17° 52' 41.1" S 148° 03' 40.2" W
Moorea (
Papetoai
)
17° 29' 31.5" S 149° 52' 16.1" W
Mopelia Atoll
16° 47' 01.9" S 153° 58' 26.1" W
Raitea-Tahaa
16° 33' 21.0" S 151° 29' 06.2" W
Scilly Atoll
16° 30' 36.5" S 154° 38' 47.1" W
Tahiti (
Punaauia-IGN
)
17° 38' 05.0" S 149° 37' 00.0" W
Tahiti Astro
17° 32' 26.0" S 149° 34' 17.9" W
Tahiti (
Pointe Venus
)
17° 29' 41.8" S 149° 29' 37.2" W
Tetiaroa Atoll
17° 01' 47.7" S 149° 33' 43.6" W
Tupai Atoll (
Motu-iti
)
16° 14' 09.0" S 151° 50' 20.5" W
3. ÎLES AUSTRALES
Maria Atoll
21° 47' 42.7" S 154° 41' 56.3" W
Raevavae (
Rairua
)
23° 52' 04.8" S 147° 41' 17.2" W
Rapa (
Ahurei
)
27° 37' 15.4" S 144° 20' 04.7" W
Rimatara (
Anapoto
)
22° 38' 38.8" S 152° 49' 03.4" W
Rurutu (
Moerai
)
22° 27' 13.9" S 151° 20' 04.6" W
Tubuai (
Mataura
)
23° 20' 40.2" S 149° 29' 08.6" W
4. ÎLES MARQUISES
Eiao (
Baie Vaitua
)
07° 59' 38.7" S 140° 42' 42.2" W
Fatu Hiva (
Hanavave
)
10° 27' 53.3" S 138° 39' 46.6" W
Hiva Oa
09° 48' 27.5" S 139° 02' 02.7" W
Nuku Hiva (
Taiohae
)
08° 54' 56.2" S 140° 05' 35.1" W
Ua Pou (
Hakahetau
)
09° 21' 33.6" S 140° 06' 16.1" W
Ua Uka (
Vaipae
)
08° 56' 17.8" S 139° 34' 18.1" W
5. SUPPLEMENTARY OBSERVATIONS (UNCOR-
RECTED FOR DEFLECTIONS)
Mopelia
16° 46' 20.0" S 153° 56' 46.8" W
Mururoa
21° 50' 22.3" S 138° 56' 44.1" W
Nukutavake (
Tavava
)
19° 16' 28.4" S 138° 46' 19.9" W
Pukarua
18° 16' 08.8" S 137° 04' 10.4" W
Reao (
Tapuarva
)
18° 27' 47.4" S 136° 27' 57.8" W
Takakoto (
Tumukuru
)
17° 20' 56.8" S 138° 27' 01.6" W
Tureia (
Fakamaru
)
20° 45' 57.7" S 138° 33' 56.8" W
Tureia (
Sud du Lagon
)
20° 50' 47.5" S 138° 31' 24.0" W
Vahitahi (
Temanufaara
)
18° 46' 29.9" S 138° 51' 28.0" W
Vairaatea
19° 19' 30.0" S 139° 13' 03.0" W
(Mission Géodésique des Tuamotu, (Juin 1950-Septembre
1953) par M. François Vallaux, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, An-
nales Hydrographiques, 1954, pp. 90-116).
A subsequent report on the Marquises offered some more
recent transformation details. In particular, for Manihi
Atoll, the 1963 cadastre was oriented in 1988 by the
Mission
Océanographique du Pacifique
from
(
MOP 88
) to the WGS72
datum as:
Δ
X = +133.9 m,
Δ
Y = +183.7 m,
Δ
Z = +162.4 m.
Furthermore, a number of transformation parameters were
offered
from
IGN 72
Datum (referenced to the International
1924 ellipsoid)
to
WGS 84 datum where:
a
= 6,378,137 m and
1/
f
= 298.25723563 where:
Δ
X
Δ
Y
Δ
Z
Nuku Hiva*
+133 m*
+191 m*
+183 m*
Hiva Oa
+332 m –11.5 m +60 m
Tahuata
+332 m –11.5 m +60 m
Ua Pou
+132 m +186 m +192 m
Ua Huka
+84 m +274 m +64.5 m
Fatu Iva
+60 m +284.5 m +115.5 m
Eiao
+332 m –64 m +251 m
(Mission Océanographique du Pacifique, Échelon de Polnésie,
Dec 1982-Jul 1990, Annales Hydrographiques, Vol. 19, No.
766, 1993).
*In regard to the Nuku Hiva transformation parameters,
the
French Institut Géographique National
website more re-
cently listed different values
from
local
to
WGS 84 as:
Δ
X
Δ
Y
Δ
Z
Nuku Hiva (IGN72)
+84 m +274 m –251 m
Furthermore, IGN also offered the following transformation
parameters
from
local
to
WGS 84:
Nouvelle-Calédonie (Lifou)
+336 m +223 m –231 m
Nouvelle-Calédonie (MHNC72)
–13 m –348 m +292 m.
Thanks to the Librarians at the Maury Oceanographic
Library that suffered my rummaging through their stacks
in the 1990s while I was lecturing to the U.S. Naval Oceano-
graphic Office and the Naval Research Laboratories at Sten-
nis Space Center in Mississippi.
The contents of this column reflect the views of the author, who is
responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein.
The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of
the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and/
or the Louisiana State University Center for GeoInformatics (C
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