DRH, something we do when taking preliminary photos of a job when we need a close up is to put one reticle of a pair of binoculars over the lens of the digital camera. It zooms us in far closer than the standard zoom on the camera. Try it out and see if it will get you a little closer, you will have a black edge all around as the relief will not be correct, but that should not matter.
I think a call to the government is in order, maybe they are conducting tests on the island while everyone was in the dark.
