Word: andes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...considerations, he founded at Cordova a splendidly equipped observatory. He had also thrown a light upon the climatic conditions of South America, and established a net work of meteorological stations extending on one side from the tropics to Terra del Fuego, and on the other side from the Andes to the Atlantic...
...other side from Arequipa are several other stations, Mount Blanc (15,700 feet elevation), Hursos (13,400), Cazro (11,100), and Santa Ana (3,400). This forms a complete chain of stations, the most perfect in the world, reaching from Mollendo on the sea coast across the Andes...
...paper on Harvard Meteorological Stations in Peru, Mr. Ward Said: Various expeditions have been made to find a suitable place for a meteorological laboratory in high altitudes, one to Colorado in 1888 and another to California in 1889. Mr. Bailey in his search hit upon the Andes at a place in about 16 degrees south latitude. In this region it is very dry, there being an annual rainfall of but about four inches. The rain all falls between January and March and during nearly all the rest of the year the sky is clear and unobscured...
Professor W. H. Pickering will watch the total eclipse of the sun next April, from the Andes. He is now at Harvard's station in Peru, making observations of Mars...
Arequipa, the site of the observations, is situated on the Mollendo railway, at an elevation of about eight thousand feet, and is the second largest city in Peru. It is here that all their principal instruments are located. A railroad leads from this city up into the Andes, six thousand feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular...