Devil's Ashpit
| Devil's Ashpit | |||
| St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension Island | |||
| Summit: | 1,759 feet 7°57’17"S, 14°19’41"W | ||
The Devil's Ashpit is a hill of 1,759 feet on the east side of Ascension Island (northernmost of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha). It is in the south-east of the island, at the end of a long road across the island from Georgetown.
The hill is to the east of the island's highest hill, Green Mountain, and joined to it by a long ridge.
Space and scouts
Until 1990, NASA maintained a base here known as 'Deep Space Station, Ascension Island', which was a tracking station used for monitoring spaceflights, as part of the NASA Deep Space Center. In particular the base at Devil's Ashpit monitored early moonshots.[1]
Today the site havs become the Challenger Outward Bound Centre, used by Boy Scouts.
References
- ↑ Ascension Island Tracking Station (pub. Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canbarra)