Abstract
After British astronomers had, in 1969, initiated a review of their optical activities in the northern hemisphere, the UK sought sites for a large optical telescope as the central feature for a new observatory. In 1974, the Spanish authorities issued an invitation for a programme of site testing in the Canary Islands, which was completed on La Palma by the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, in 1975. International agreements were concluded in 1979 between Spain, the UK, Sweden and Denmark, between organisations for scientific research in these countries and between institutions wishing to set up telescopes in the Canaries and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the overall proprietor of the new Observatory on La Palma. The Netherlands and Ireland joined the UK as partners to establish the Isaac Newton Group and Denmark to establish the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle, these telescopes inaugurated in 1985 together with the Canary Islandś observatories.
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