• Title
  Nautical Chart, California to Hawaii [No. 527 121st Edition May 1925]
• Creator
  United States. Hydrographic Office
• Call number
  XV/63
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1928
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Prints
• Reference code
  421596
• Physical Description
  Prints - printed chart with manuscript annotations - 76.5 x 75.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Harry Lyon was a crewman on board the Southern Cross flight, 1928, with Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm.
• Scope and Content
  This is an original finished flight chart from the first part of the Southern Cross trans-Pacific flight, with navigator Harry Lyon's annotations plotting the path of the aircraft. His ink inscriptions include the latitude and longitude, course, elapsed distance and distance remaining to Honolulu. Army radio beacons at San Francisco and Honolulu enabled the Southern Cross to maintain a steady bearing on this part of the flight.
• General note
  
  This item has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  Digital order no:a128198
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Annotations in pencil and ink made in 1928.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Lyon, Harry W. Captain
  
• Name
  Southern Cross (aeroplane)
  
• Topic
  maps
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January - June 2003)

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