NOAA Photo Library

NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Catalog of Images

150	Bill Love and Ensign Harley Nygren At Leffingwell survey monument	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
151	Lieutenant Don Jones observing angles with a T-3 theodolite	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
152	Vincent Nageak	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
153	Commander Robert Earle at Flaxman Island Standing at Leffingwell Survey marker from early 1900's	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
154	Grave marker of an unknown on Flaxman Island	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
155	Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
156	An outbuilding at Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
157	A group of Eskimos at Brownlow Point across from Flaxman Island	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
158	Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
159	Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
160	Triangulation station NYGREN 1949 - 70 08 51.83200(N) 146 11 24.40800(W)	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
161	Other than the cold, baseline measurements were facilitated by measuring across the flat lagoon ice from mainland point-to-point. Baselines were measured to second-order standards and 4-5 miles long.	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
162	Observing tower with wind screen	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
163	When the melt begins, it's time to start working on the boats	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
164	Looking over arm of the Beaufort Sea before the pack ice breaks up Oliktok Point Camp in distance in photo center	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
165	Looking towards Tigvariak Camp across lagoon ice	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
166	No waves today - standing on the shoreline of a frozen sea	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
167	Looking down the shoreline of Tigvariak Island towards the camp	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
168	Watching the ice melt and breakup on the north shore of Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
169	A last trip across the ice by dog sled	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
170	Gene Richards and Nogeak going for a final sled ride (or first swim)	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
171	Ice receding from the shoreline Soon it will be time to put the boats in the water	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
172	Eskimo diversion - flying high above the shore	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
173	Description not available.	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
174	Collecting fresh water on a berg near Cross Island on misty day	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
175	Ice along the shore at sunset	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
176	Building a hydrographic signal - used for near shore hydrographic work Stan Jeffers on right.	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
177	Ice along the shore at Cross Island	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
178	Jellyfish along an icy shoreline	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
179	Tide gage installation - Abe Simmons and Harley Nygren	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
180	Building a hydrographic signal - used for near shore hydrographic work	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
181	Beginning to build a hydrographic signal	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
182	Orange, white, and blue - survey launch next to ice berg	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
183	Signal pole on Dinkum Sands - east side of Prudhoe Bay The existence of these sands has been the subject of litigation	Dinkum Sands, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
184	Collecting fresh water from ice berg Pools of fresh water collect on top of melting ice bergs	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
185	Description not available.	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
186	Survey launch towing dinghies after supplying observing camp	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
187	Heading out to the Survey Launch #15 to start the day's work.	Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
188	A cloudy day at Tigvariak - length of beard indicates nearing end of season Andrew F. "Pierre" Menard with beard.	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949
189	A late summer sunset from a survey launch	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
190	Stopping at a small Alaska town on the way south	Barter Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
191	Stopping at a small Alaska town on the way south	Barter Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
192	Flying over the Colville River on the way home	Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
193	Flying over the Brooks Range enroute to North Slope	Brooks Range, Alaska Winter 1950
194	The sea ice off of Tigvariak Island	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Winter 1950
195	A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain	Alaska North Slope Winter 1950
196	Drifting snow at Tigvariak Camp	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950
197	Digging out the Tigvariak Island Camp	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950
198	Harley Nygren	Alaska North Slope Winter 1950
199	Drifting snow at Tigvariak Camp	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950

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