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705/1962  

All papers Monday, 14th May, 1962  

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY  

Site selected for the Field Station of Mount Stromlo Observatory  

The choice of site for the Field Station of the Mount Stromlo  

Observatory in the Australian National University was announced today by  

the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor L.G.H. Huxley.  

Professor Huxley said the Field Station would be located at the Woorut  

Trigonometrical Station (Siding Spring Mountain), fifteen miles from  

Coonabarabran, New South Wales. The selection of the Siding Spring site,  

(3820 feet above sea level), would be subject to final agreement by the New  

South Wales Lands Department.  

Work on the Field Station, which would be equipped at the outset with  

new 40-inch Reflector on order from the United States, would begin shortly.  

Several other telescopes would later be transferred to the Siding Spring site.  

Professor Huxley added, however, that the headquarters of the Department of  

Astronomy would remain at Mount Stromlo.  

***********  

(Further information is available from Professor Bart J. Bok, Director of the  

Mount Stromlo Observatory, telephone 706-511).  

Office of the Registrar,  

The Australian National University,  

CANBERRA, A.C.T.  

11th May, 1962  

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