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NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Catalog of Images

500 thumbnail picture
PATHFINDER framed between columnar rocks at Ragged Point
Ragged Point, Kagalaska Island, Aleutians, Alaska May, 1953
501 thumbnail picture
PATHFINDER on the working grounds at Kagalaska Island
Alaska, Kagalaska Island, Aleutian Islands May, 1953
502 thumbnail picture
Shoreline of Adak Island
Alaska, Adak Island, Aleutian Islands May, 1953
503 thumbnail picture
Lieutenant Harley Nygren on the PATHFINDER
May, 1953
504 thumbnail picture
Lieutenant Harley Nygren on the PATHFINDER in dress khakis
May, 1953
505 thumbnail picture
Shoreline of Adak Island
Alaska, Adak Island, Aleutian Islands May, 1953
506 thumbnail picture
Signal building party taking a rest on Kagalaska Island
Alaska, Kagalaska Island, Aleutian Islands June, 1953
507 thumbnail picture
Flying home for leave over Mount Iliamna
Mt. Iliamna, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska July, 1953
508 thumbnail picture
Mountains on the Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Peninsula, Alaska July, 1953
509 thumbnail picture
View from the airplane of Alaska coastal ranges
July, 1953
510 thumbnail picture
View from the airplane of Alaska coastal ranges
Alaska, Cook Inlet July, 1953
511 thumbnail picture
Survey party on St. Paul
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska July, 1953
512 thumbnail picture
Pribilof Islands view with volcanic cone
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
513 thumbnail picture
Packing to a navigation signal site
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
514 thumbnail picture
What appears to be a rock-strewn beach is in fact a fur-seal rookery. Thousands of fur-seals on a St. Paul beach
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
515 thumbnail picture
Burial site of an American sailor who never made it home
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
516 thumbnail picture
A large bull fur-seal probably too old to fight for a harem. Main part of rookery down to the left.
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
517 thumbnail picture
Headquarters for onshore survey work
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
518 thumbnail picture
A view of St. Paul
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
519 thumbnail picture
Recorder sitting and writing angles as observer measures angles with theodolite
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
520 thumbnail picture
Taking a rest after packing to the top of Bogoslof Hill for observations
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
521 thumbnail picture
A close look at this rocky shoreline will reveal a great number of seals.
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
522 thumbnail picture
Seals hauled out on a rocky shore
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
523 thumbnail picture
Seals taking in the sun on a rocky point
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
524 thumbnail picture
Work parties returning to the PATHFINDER from a day ashore.
St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska August, 1953
525 thumbnail picture
Taking a sun sight with sextants
September, 1953
526 thumbnail picture
Forbidding shores of the Aleutian Islands
Alaska, Akutan Pass, Aleutian Islands September, 1953
527 thumbnail picture
The old C&GS Ship SURVEYOR at Dutch Harbor looking a little worse for the wear. The SURVEYOR was not quite 40 years old at this time.
Alaska, Dutch Harbor, Aleutian Islands September, 1953
528 thumbnail picture
Lieutenant Harley Nygren taking a sun sight.
September, 1953
529 thumbnail picture
A Gulf of Alaska sunset as the PATHFINDER heads home from a long season.
Gulf of Alaska September, 1953
530 thumbnail picture
Wave cloud over Mount Rainier
Mt. Rainier, Washington October, 1953
531 thumbnail picture
Wave cloud over Mount Rainier
Mt. Rainier, Washington October, 1953
532 thumbnail picture
Sam Fordyce taking readings with gravity meter
Texas October, 1954
533 thumbnail picture
Harley Nygren reading marker indicating geographical center of United States
October, 1954
534 thumbnail picture
Harley Nygren with gravity meter - Even when in the Lower 48 he was sent to cold places.
Fort Kent, Maine March, 1955
535 thumbnail picture
Sam Fordyce with gravity meter
Fort Kent, Maine March, 1955
536 thumbnail picture
Traveling in style with the gravity field party - Tent camps were now a thing of the past.
Fremont, Nebraska June, 1955
537 thumbnail picture
Traveling in style with the gravity field party - Tent camps were now a thing of the past.
Fremont, Nebraska June, 1955
538 thumbnail picture
View of the waterfront
Alaska, Ketchikan May, 1958
539 thumbnail picture
View of the waterfront
Alaska, Ketchikan May, 1958
540 thumbnail picture
View of the waterfront
Alaska, Ketchikan May, 1958
541 thumbnail picture
Survey launch returning to the EXPLORER
McKenzie Inlet, Alaska May, 1958
542 thumbnail picture
Survey launch work
Polk Inlet, Alaska May, 1958
543 thumbnail picture
Reflections on a calm day
Polk Inlet, Alaska May, 1958
544 thumbnail picture
The upper reaches of the inlet
Polk Inlet, Alaska May, 1958
545 thumbnail picture
PATHFINDER at anchor
Skowl Arm, Alaska May, 1958
546 thumbnail picture
Hunting for critters at Old Kasaan Survey crew off the PATHFINDER
Old Kasaan, Alaska May, 1958
547 thumbnail picture
The totem poles at Old Kasaan Survey crew off the PATHFINDER
Old Kasaan, Alaska May, 1958
548 thumbnail picture
Harley Nygren on the right next to a magnificent totem pole at Old Kasaan Survey crew off the PATHFINDER
Old Kasaan, Alaska May, 1958
549 thumbnail picture
Whitewashing a hydrographic signal in Polk Inlet Survey crew off the PATHFINDER
Polk Inlet, Alaska May, 1958

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