Some memories of 89 Field Survey Squadron,

 High Ridge camp, Nairobi, Kenya

By Trevor ‘Bill’ Powell -  August 1958 to August 1959

First field trip, to the NFD west of Lake Rudolf, September to December 1958

My main work was Astro fixes, with some photo annotation, compiling names sheets and altimeter heighting.

Map of Kenya

Map of the NFD west of Lake Rudolf (Turkana)  The inked-over tracks indicate my travels.

Some photos of the journey and our base camp at Lodwar.

Photos of our Astro Fix point near Ferguson’s Gulf

Photos of the area

Photos of trip from Lodwar in Kenya to Loelli in the Sudan

Photos of return trip from Loelli to Lodwar

A couple of months in Nairobi, a couple of weeks at Malindi

            High Ridge Camp and RAF Eastleigh

Photos at High Ridge Camp and in Nairobi

R&R in Malindi

Second field trip, to the NFD west of Lake Rudolf, March 1959

            The work was Tellurometer traversing with Mick Dyall who flew out from the UK

Tellurometer

Third and final field trip, to the NFD in the Garissa, Wajir, Lamu area, May and June 1959

My main work was Astro fixes, with some photo annotation, compiling names sheets and altimeter heighting.

Map of NFD (Garissa, Wajir, Lamu) The inked-over tracks indicate my travels.

Photos of the bush 

An Astro Fix point     

Photos of  the Kenya Police Post at Wajir (interesting, but nothing to do with survey work)

Additional photos

89 Field Survey Squadron was disbanded in August 1959 after about six years in which the whole of Kenya, some 582,646 sq.Km, was mapped at 1:100,000.