Old Compass Station
USA /
California /
Bolinas /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Bolinas
ADF - automatic direction finder, closed / former military, United States Navy, historic ruins
Former location of the Navy's direction finder. It was later moved to the south of this location.
Between approximately 1905 and 1939 the United States Navy occupied and used the southeast portion of the Southeast Farallon Island as a Radio Direction Finder (DF) Station.
www.militarymuseum.org/Farallons.html
Between approximately 1905 and 1939 the United States Navy occupied and used the southeast portion of the Southeast Farallon Island as a Radio Direction Finder (DF) Station.
www.militarymuseum.org/Farallons.html
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°41'56"N 122°59'58"W
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- Ile-A-La-Crosse NDB 2280 km
- Sedly NDB 3104 km
- Radio station 4746 km
- Patty NDB 5890 km
- antenna array 7727 km
- A strange circle on the field in zheleznodorozny 9483 km
- Automatic RDF system 10451 km
- Аeronautical navigation aid 11150 km
- Accra NDB 12413 km
- Fresh Water Pump House and Cistern 0.2 km
- Catchment Basin 0.2 km
- Lighthouse Keepers' Dwellings 0.3 km
- Double Quarters 0.3 km
- Dormitory 0.3 km
- Water Collector 0.3 km
- South Farallon Island 0.6 km
- Gerrenaldo Island 4.3 km
- Farallon Islands 6.1 km
- US Nuclear Dump Site 6.2 km