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THE report of the Gold Coast Survey for 1935-36 (Accra, 1936. Is.), while recording a steady development of useful work, lays stress on the want of resources for the adequate survey of the Colony. It is the difficulty which most colonial surveys have to face and represents the results of a short-sighted policy. The greater part of the Northern Territories is completely unmapped. In the south and in Ashanti only part of the primary triangulation is completed. Development of prospective mining areas is liable to be checked by want of geological surveys, which cannot be carried out without a topographical map. Air surveys have been considered, but the two difficulties are much densely forested country and a lack of fixed points from which to work. Another urgent matter is the extension of geodetic levelling. An old network of levels exists, but requires checking with modern standards of accuracy.
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Gold Coast Surveys. Nature 138, 1092 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381092a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1381092a0