NOAA Photo Library

NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Catalog of Images

250	Launch 15 crew - Stan Jeffers, Abe Simmons, Harley Nygren, Jerry Gray, Ted Shanahan, and Harry Lantzy	Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
251	Tigvariak Island base camp from the air	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
252	Description not available.	Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
253	Unloading a float plane - Ensign Eugene W. Richards on right.	Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
254	A hydrographic signal	Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
255	A Shoran navigation station	Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
256	Tide gage, hydrographic signal, and shore camp Older buildings are from ca. 1910 Leffingwell survey	Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
257	Photo identification work - using transit on triangulation point to identify recognizable features. Lincoln Ganung on knees.	Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
258	An abandoned whale boat from years before	Beechey Point, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
259	Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
260	Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
261	Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
262	A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
263	An abandoned native skiff	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
264	Orphaned fox cubs	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
265	Navy landing craft helping transport supplies	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
266	A Navy helicopter helping transport supplies	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950
267	A late summer shower followed by a rainbow	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
268	Going home at the end of a long day - the view from Launch 15	Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950
269	Flying over the Brooks Range on the way north	Brooks Range, Alaska Summer 1950
270	Flying over southeast Alaska mountain peaks on the way home at end of the season	Fairweather Range, Southeast Alaska Summer 1950
271	Drifting snow at the Oliktok Point Camp	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
272	Boat picking its way through an ice berg field	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
273	Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
274	White-out conditions at Oliktok Point	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
275	Description not available.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
276	Near white-out conditions at Oliktok Point	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
277	A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951
278	Description not available.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
279	Description not available.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
280	On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
281	Unloading a Norseman ski-plane at Oliktok Point	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
282	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
283	Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Spring 1951
284	Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Spring 1951
285	Observer's tent with weasel in background	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951
286	Lieutenant Francis Popper driving a weasel during magnetic observation operations.	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
287	Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
288	Open water to left, bare tundra to the right Weasel takes path of least resistance over strip of snow	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
289	Description not available.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
290	Building a visual hydrographic signal on the tundra.	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
291	Lieutenant Francis Popper preparing to make magnetic observations with a transit magnetometer.	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
292	Harley Nygren observing magnetic field	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
293	Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
294	A siksikpuk (an Arctic ground squirrel)	Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951
295	The spring melt at Oliktok Point	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
296	The spring melt continues - bare tundra is seen	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
297	Using a caterpillar tractor to launch a survey boat	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
298	Loading the weasel on "Goldie"	Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951
299	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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