Peak, San Clemente Island

Peak, San Clemente Island , California, William E. Greenwell, 1862; Stehman Forney, 1878.—On the highest point of the most northwesterly of the ridges crossing the main ridge of the island, 2 ½ miles east of Seal harbor and 600 meters northeast of road. The top of the ridge is covered with large stones, the outcroppings of a stratum of sandstone. In 1862 the station was marked by a drill hole in a rock, covered by a pile of stones. In 1879 a leaden bolt with a copper tack was driven into this hole, the tack marking the center of the station. Crosses were cut on rocks, each distant 15 feet from the center of the station, as follows: To the east or southeast, on the top of a large boulder; to the southwest, on a flat rock cropping out from the ledge, and to the north, on a flat tock 1 foot square. [[Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, 1904]