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NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Catalog of Images

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Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
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White-out conditions at Oliktok Point
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
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Camp after blizzard. Need to dig out again.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Near white-out conditions at Oliktok Point
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
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A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
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Spring melt starting wiht patches of snow melt water. Survey signal in center picture.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Flag for either placing survey signal or perhaps to mark route to survey signals
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Unloading a Norseman ski-plane at Oliktok Point
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Strolling down main street of the Oliktok Point Camp Snow plows cover entrances to buildings similar to more urban areas
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Spring 1951
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Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Spring 1951
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Observer's tent with weasel in background
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
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Lieutenant Francis Popper driving a weasel during magnetic observation operations.
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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Open water to left, bare tundra to the right Weasel takes path of least resistance over strip of snow
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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Base camp at Oliktok Point
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Building a visual hydrographic signal on the tundra.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Lieutenant Francis Popper preparing to make magnetic observations with a transit magnetometer.
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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Harley Nygren observing magnetic field
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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A siksikpuk (an Arctic ground squirrel)
Alaska, Colville Delta, North Slope Summer 1951
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The spring melt at Oliktok Point
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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The spring melt continues - bare tundra is seen
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Using a caterpillar tractor to launch a survey boat
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Loading the weasel on "Goldie"
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
426 thumbnail picture
Launch 15 with a navigation buoy ready to be anchored offshore Guided Navy LST's to Oliktok Point Camp.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Survey launch tied up and fueling at a "home-made" pier
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Launch 15 transporting material for a signal on a gray day
Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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A Shoran navigation station on a barrier island
Alaska, Egg Island, North Slope Summer 1951
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A float plane taxiing on a calm day
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Launch crews with their boats - Lieutenant Commander Marv Paulson in green coat in center.
Alaska, Beechey Point, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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Abandoned fur traders' outpost on the Arctic coast
Alaska, Beechey Point, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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Abandoned fur traders' outpost on the Arctic coast
Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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Summertime landing along the sandy beach
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Peaceful twilight scene near summer's end
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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"Goldie" getting supplies from a Navy landing ship.
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Anchored launches silhouetted in a late summer sunset
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
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Crepuscular rays illuminating the Beaufort Sea
Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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A brilliant red sunset reflecting off the frozen tundra
Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
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A survey boat and hydro signal frame a late summer sunset
Alaska, Oliktok Point Summer 1951
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Harley Nygren dressed in the latest Arctic style
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
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Lieutenant Gene Richards, C&GS, and Bill Love
Alaska North Slope Summer 1949
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Abe Simmonds
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
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Harley Nygren taking it easy after a day out on the tundra
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
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Ensign Dale Fisher and Ensign Harley Nygren, C&GS
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
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Commander Junius Jarman, C&GS
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
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Ensign Gene Richards, C&GS
Alaska North Slope Spring 1950
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Harley Nygren amidst the North Slope National Forest
Alaska North Slope Spring 1951
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Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper, C&GS
Alaska North Slope Spring 1951

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