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the IGY in that country and director of the Tokyo Astronomical 

 Observatoiy. The Tokyo Observatory, which operates the station, 

 is in Mitaka, a town of 1,000 people, about 40 miles outside Tokyo. 

 Construction of the buildings on the Observatory grounds was com- 

 pleted in January of 1958. 



The region around Mitaka is on the fringe of the monsoon area; 

 in the summer, observing is limited by clouds and rain. 



Naini Tal., India. — The station in India was established through 

 the cooperation of the Uttar Pradesh Observatory at Naini Tal, and 

 the program was coordinated by Dr. M. K. Vainu Bappu, its chief 

 astronomer. 



Some 150 miles north of New Delhi, the station is about 8 miles from 

 Naini Tal, a town of 12,000 people. Naini Tal was the first of the 

 hill stations of India, where the European administrators in the days 

 of the British rule used to go to escape from the extreme conditions 

 in summer on the plains of India. The Baker-Nunn camera was the 

 first instrument installed at Manora Peak, the newly selected site 

 for the Observatory. 



Here also the monsoon season interferes considerably with the ob- 

 serving program. There is some difficulty in transportation — with no 

 airport nearby, materials must come by rail or road from New Delhi. 



Arequipa, Peru. — Arrangements for the station in Peru were made 

 through the chairman of its National IGY Committee, Dr. J.A. 

 Broggi, and through Fernando L. de Romana of Arequipa. Con- 

 struction of the station was begun in December of 1957. 



Arequipa, with a population of 95,000, the second largest city in 

 Peru, had at one time been the location of a Harvard observing sta- 

 tion that for 5 years had been directed by Leon Campbell, Sr. 

 The site for the Baker-Nunn station, about 3 miles outside the city, 

 was provided under contract agreement by the National University 

 of San Agustin, which operates a seismic station nearby. 



Arequipa and the village where the station is actually located are 

 in an elevated valley some 8,000 feet above sea level in very moun- 

 tainous country with peaks up to 20,000 feet high. It rarely rains 

 there, although the skies are often cloudy. 



Shiras, Iran. — Arrangements for the Shiraz station were coordi- 

 nated by Dr. H. K. Afshar, a member of the faculty of science of the 

 University of Teheran. The universities of Teheran and Shiraz as- 

 sumed the construction cost of the building and arranged for the lease 

 of land. 



Shiraz, in southwest Iran, has a population of 130,000. The city 

 itself is in a fairly flat, green valley. Quite arid mountains surround 

 it, and the station is in the foothills of these moimtains on the prop- 

 erty of the Nemazee hospital about 4 miles outside the city. 



