Issued destinations

Drift Island · Expedition Society
The island is charted each spring and found each autumn some distance from where it was charted. The Bureau has adopted the practice of printing the year beside the coordinates. The society was founded in 1952 and has not missed a spring. Three consecutive charts place the island in three different positions, all of them kept. The Bureau holds that a position given with its year is not an error but a measurement.

Hollow Peak · Observatory
Permits are issued for the hours of darkness and expire at first light, whether or not the holder has come down. The Bureau records that no permit has yet been renewed. The observatory has been in service since 1957 and issues its permits singly, never in series. The Bureau observes that no renewal has been applied for, and refrains from drawing the obvious conclusion.

Kraken Island · National Park
Registration is compulsory on arrival and, the Bureau notes, on departure. The discrepancy between the two figures is reviewed annually and has never been explained. The park was scheduled in 1958 over an area the register gives to the hectare, a figure two later surveys have failed to confirm. The discrepancy is read out at the annual meeting, entered in the minutes, and carried forward.

Moon Bay · Diving Club
The club dives at night, when the bay is lit well enough to see and too well to judge depth. Soundings taken by three separate parties disagree by a margin the Bureau declines to publish. The club was constituted in 1961 and has not revised its statutes since. The bay carries two names on the charts, one local and one administrative, and nobody recalls which came first. The Bureau lists both and dives with neither.

Salt Harbour · Ferry Terminal
The terminal publishes a timetable, and a second timetable for fog. Locals consult the second. The Bureau files both and recommends neither. The terminal has run since 1949 and has never cancelled a crossing: it defers them. The second timetable carries no hours at all, only conditions. The Bureau lodged it as received, holding that to add hours would be to take a position.