A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game

An abandoned native skiff

Orphaned fox cubs

Navy landing craft helping transport supplies

A Navy helicopter helping transport supplies

A late summer shower followed by a rainbow

Going home at the end of a long day - the view from Launch 15

Flying over the Brooks Range on the way north

Flying over southeast Alaska mountain peaks on the way home at end of the season

Drifting snow at the Oliktok Point Camp

Boat picking its way through an ice berg field

Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door

White-out conditions at Oliktok Point

Camp after blizzard. Need to dig out again.

Near white-out conditions at Oliktok Point

A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain

Spring melt starting wiht patches of snow melt water. Survey signal in center picture.

Flag for either placing survey signal or perhaps to mark route to survey signals

On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out.

Unloading a Norseman ski-plane at Oliktok Point

Strolling down main street of the Oliktok Point Camp Snow plows cover entrances to buildings similar to more urban areas

Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt

Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period

Observer's tent with weasel in background

Lieutenant Francis Popper driving a weasel during magnetic observation operations.

Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper

Open water to left, bare tundra to the right Weasel takes path of least resistance over strip of snow

Base camp at Oliktok Point

Building a visual hydrographic signal on the tundra.

Lieutenant Francis Popper preparing to make magnetic observations with a transit magnetometer.

Harley Nygren observing magnetic field

Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground

A siksikpuk (an Arctic ground squirrel)

The spring melt at Oliktok Point

The spring melt continues - bare tundra is seen

Using a caterpillar tractor to launch a survey boat

Loading the weasel on "Goldie"

Launch 15 with a navigation buoy ready to be anchored offshore Guided Navy LST's to Oliktok Point Camp.

Survey launch tied up and fueling at a "home-made" pier

Launch 15 transporting material for a signal on a gray day

A Shoran navigation station on a barrier island

A float plane taxiing on a calm day

Launch crews with their boats - Lieutenant Commander Marv Paulson in green coat in center.

Abandoned fur traders' outpost on the Arctic coast

Abandoned fur traders' outpost on the Arctic coast

Summertime landing along the sandy beach

Peaceful twilight scene near summer's end

"Goldie" getting supplies from a Navy landing ship.

Anchored launches silhouetted in a late summer sunset

Crepuscular rays illuminating the Beaufort Sea