This page houses
the MARCH 1930 "skeleton maP of northeastern
nicaragua." Like many
maps of the period, this hybrid map was cobbled
together from multiple sources, including
unidentified old surveys (doubtless produced by
fruit & mining & lumbering companies), Bragmans
Bluff Company maps & surveys, an old mining
survey from Panama Mining Co., and Marine Corps
surveys. Here is the official
description from the map legend:
"Skeleton Map of Northeastern
Nicaragua, Poteca-Bocay-Garrobo-Santa
Cruz area by Lieut. Pollock, Adjusted by Sergt
Kurner. Garrobo-Cuvali-La Luz-Neptune
traverse under direction of Capt. Linscott.
Adjusted by Sergt Kurner.
Bocay-Awawas-Waspuc traverse by Lieut. Pollock.
Waspuc River from an old survey. Coco
River from Waspuc-Saclin-Cape Gracias from an
old survey. Adjusted by Pfc. Geisler.
Puerto Cabezas, Wawa River, Bragmann's Bluff
Lumber Co., Railroad, Trail from Brown's Camp to
Neptune from survey by B. B. Lumber Co.
Adjusted by Pfc Geisler. Bambana River
from survey from Panama Mining Co.
Adjusted by Pfc. Geisler. Not corrected
for curvature of the Earth. Scale approx.
1/250,000. Features not known accurately
indicated by long dashes. Inserts and
notes from various sources. Prepared by
Pfc. L. A. Geisler by direction of First
Lieutenant W. C. Hall. Approved [signed]
W. C. Hall, 1st Lt. U.S.M.C. March 16, 1930.
Retraced by Reproduction Dept, M.C.S., M. B.
Quantico Va. Sept. 1930."
The original map is housed in
RG127 in Archives II in College Park, MD and
measures 39½" high x 32" wide. The map
presented here is a panoramic stitch of scans of
a photocopy.
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Map Legend.
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1930 Skeleton Map of
Northeastern Nicaragua (Caution:
Big File: 86.9 MB)
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Detail: "Sketch of Waspuc
Area by 1st Lt. J. W. Cunningham, USMC,
January 1929"
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Detail: "Sketch of
vicinity of Poteca from sketch issued by
Fifth Regiment USMC"
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Detail: "La Luz from
sketch by H. B. Alban, 1st Lt., USMC,
July 1929"
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Detail: "Neptune Mine /
Mineral de Pis Pis. Prepared by Donald
R. Fox, Captain USMC, 14 November 1928 .
. . Creek poisoned by Cyanide
below Mine"
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