Mount Eden 2

For surveyors when visiting Mount Eden it really has a significant meaning. On top of ME there is a trigonometric station, an infrastructure so important to the surveying community. The station is the point where surveyors will occupy when they do survey work to determine position for any mapping work.

a trig point on the top of Mount Eden

A geodetic monument

This obelisk was first erected by Stephenson Percy Smith, Chief Geodetic Surveyor, on the 17th day of August 1872 as initial station for the triangulation of the Auckland, instituted by Captain  Theophilus Heale Inspector of Surveys

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