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Launch 15 crew - Stan Jeffers, Abe Simmons, Harley Nygren, Jerry Gray, Ted Shanahan, and Harry Lantzy |
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Tigvariak Island base camp from the air |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Description not available. |
Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Unloading a float plane - Ensign Eugene W. Richards on right. |
Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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A hydrographic signal |
Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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A Shoran navigation station |
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Tide gage, hydrographic signal, and shore camp Older buildings are from ca. 1910 Leffingwell survey |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Photo identification work - using transit on triangulation point to identify recognizable features. Lincoln Ganung on knees. |
Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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An abandoned whale boat from years before |
Beechey Point, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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An abandoned native skiff |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Orphaned fox cubs |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Navy landing craft helping transport supplies |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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A Navy helicopter helping transport supplies |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
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A late summer shower followed by a rainbow |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Going home at the end of a long day - the view from Launch 15 |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
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Flying over the Brooks Range on the way north |
Brooks Range, Alaska Summer 1950 |
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Flying over southeast Alaska mountain peaks on the way home at end of the season |
Fairweather Range, Southeast Alaska Summer 1950 |
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Drifting snow at the Oliktok Point Camp |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
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Boat picking its way through an ice berg field |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
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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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Description not available. |
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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Description not available. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
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Description not available. |
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 |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Spring 1951 |
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Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period |
Colville Delta, Alaska 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. |
Colville Delta, Alaska 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 |
Colville Delta, Alaska 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 |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
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Description not available. |
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. |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
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Harley Nygren observing magnetic field |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
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Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
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A siksikpuk (an Arctic ground squirrel) |
Colville Delta, Alaska 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 |
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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 |