Papua New Guinea - Geodetic Monitoring Site
Site ID
SASI
Station Location
Sasiang
Station Number
SASI
Station Address
Tablebirds Chicken breeding farm
Sasiang
Morobe Province
WGS-84 Station Coordinates
Latitude
S 6°25'09.15056"
Longitude
E 146°25'31.48192"
Ellipsoidal Ht
352 m
SITE OWNERSHIP
Owner / Authority
Tablebirds Chicken farm
Site Contact/s (2002)
Labu Punkanu (Farm manager)
Tablebirds Lae
ph. 472 6444 (for radio contact to farm)
Morobe Province
STATION DESCRIPTION
Station marker
Centre of hemispheric bolt set in concrete within large GIP
Inscription
none
Reference marks
none
Witness marks
Azimuth marks
none
Station constructed by/date
UCSC, 2000
special instructions
Site soil / Geology
Alluvium
Sawtooth Range from Sasiang
SITE ACCESS
Road
Site is accessible by road from Lae and Nadzab.
Follow the Highlands Highway west from Lae for 96 km
(54 km from Nadzab). Turn right into Farm complex. The Leron bridge
is 5km further along the Highlands Highway and you have gone too far.
Travel time is approx. 1.5 hrs from Lae, 1 hour from
Nadzab.
SITE FACILITIES
Power
Solar Panels required
Shelter
tent required for the receiver
Accommodation
Lae?
Security
Site is reasonably secure
Labour
Communications
Adverse conditions
SITE DIAGRAMS
Access map
SASI and Lower Markham 1:250,000 map
SASI and NARI 1:100,000 topo map
SASI access map
Site diagram
SASI Site sketch 2002
site photographs 2002
SASI Station mark
SASI looking East
SASI looking NE
SASI looking South
Elevation mask
SASI Elevation mask
OCCUPATION SUMMARIES
Party leaders
2000-2001, Laura Wallace, UCSC and Unitech
April 2002, Richard Stanaway, RSES, and Suvenia Hasiata, Unitech
Last updated: 10th September 2003
Richard Stanaway
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University