Transcribed from item: Typed note adhered to photograph: Aerial oblique looking to the south. In the foreground, the Northwall Firn and then the Meren Glacier with many small lakes. Further behind and separated by the Middenkam is the Carstensz Glacier, and in the background the north face of the Carstensz Pyramid. Compare with 1972-5-4b.
Note on 1936 Indonesian glaciers: Photographs from the 1936 Colijn Expedition. Aerial photographs taken sometime between May and August 1936 with a Fairchild aerial camera with a 30cm focal length lens. Terrestrial photographs taken between late November and early December 1936. The positions from which terrestrial photographs were taken are identified on the accompanying map (by J.J. Dozy) resulting from the expedition. Positions are also marked (and given as coordinates) on the CGE map. All 1936 photographs in this collection were provided by Professor J.J. Dozy, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. Terrestrial photographs are from the original negatives; aerial photographs are copy prints.
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Transcribed from item: Typed note adhered to photograph: Aerial oblique looking to the south. In the foreground, the Northwall Firn and then the Meren Glacier with many small lakes. Further behind and separated by the Middenkam is the Carstensz Glacier, and in the background the north face of the Carstensz Pyramid. Compare with 1972-5-4b.
Note on 1936 Indonesian glaciers: Photographs from the 1936 Colijn Expedition. Aerial photographs taken sometime between May and August 1936 with a Fairchild aerial camera with a 30cm focal length lens. Terrestrial photographs taken between late November and early December 1936. The positions from which terrestrial photographs were taken are identified on the accompanying map (by J.J. Dozy) resulting from the expedition. Positions are also marked (and given as coordinates) on the CGE map. All 1936 photographs in this collection were provided by Professor J.J. Dozy, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. Terrestrial photographs are from the original negatives; aerial photographs are copy prints.
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