250 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1136.jpg) |
Launch 15 crew - Stan Jeffers, Abe Simmons, Harley Nygren, Jerry Gray, Ted Shanahan, and Harry Lantzy |
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
251 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1137.jpg) |
Tigvariak Island base camp from the air |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
252 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1138.jpg) |
Description not available. |
Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
253 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1139.jpg) |
Unloading a float plane - Ensign Eugene W. Richards on right. |
Point Lay, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
254 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1140.jpg) |
A hydrographic signal |
Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
255 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1141.jpg) |
A Shoran navigation station |
Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
256 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1142.jpg) |
Tide gage, hydrographic signal, and shore camp Older buildings are from ca. 1910 Leffingwell survey |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
257 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1143.jpg) |
Photo identification work - using transit on triangulation point to identify recognizable features. Lincoln Ganung on knees. |
Reindeer Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
258 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1144.jpg) |
An abandoned whale boat from years before |
Beechey Point, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
259 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1145.jpg) |
Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
260 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1146.jpg) |
Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
261 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1147.jpg) |
Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
262 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1148.jpg) |
A candidate for world record for northernmost volleyball game |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
263 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1149.jpg) |
An abandoned native skiff |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
264 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1150.jpg) |
Orphaned fox cubs |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
265 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1151.jpg) |
Navy landing craft helping transport supplies |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
266 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1152.jpg) |
A Navy helicopter helping transport supplies |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1950 |
267 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1153.jpg) |
A late summer shower followed by a rainbow |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
268 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1154.jpg) |
Going home at the end of a long day - the view from Launch 15 |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1950 |
269 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1155.jpg) |
Flying over the Brooks Range on the way north |
Brooks Range, Alaska Summer 1950 |
270 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1156.jpg) |
Flying over southeast Alaska mountain peaks on the way home at end of the season |
Fairweather Range, Southeast Alaska Summer 1950 |
271 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1157.jpg) |
Drifting snow at the Oliktok Point Camp |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
272 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1158.jpg) |
Boat picking its way through an ice berg field |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
273 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1159.jpg) |
Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
274 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1160.jpg) |
White-out conditions at Oliktok Point |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
275 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1161.jpg) |
Description not available. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
276 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1162.jpg) |
Near white-out conditions at Oliktok Point |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
277 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1163.jpg) |
A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Winter 1951 |
278 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1164.jpg) |
Description not available. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
279 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1165.jpg) |
Description not available. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
280 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1166.jpg) |
On the airstrip at Oliktok Point - wind blowing flag straight out. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
281 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1167.jpg) |
Unloading a Norseman ski-plane at Oliktok Point |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
282 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1168.jpg) |
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 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1169.jpg) |
Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Spring 1951 |
284 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1170.jpg) |
Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Spring 1951 |
285 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1171.jpg) |
Observer's tent with weasel in background |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Spring 1951 |
286 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1172.jpg) |
Lieutenant Francis Popper driving a weasel during magnetic observation operations. |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
287 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1173.jpg) |
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 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1174.jpg) |
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 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1175.jpg) |
Description not available. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
290 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1176.jpg) |
Building a visual hydrographic signal on the tundra. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
291 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1177.jpg) |
Lieutenant Francis Popper preparing to make magnetic observations with a transit magnetometer. |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
292 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1178.jpg) |
Harley Nygren observing magnetic field |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
293 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1179.jpg) |
Checking the angles - Wild T-2 theodolite carrying case in right foreground |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
294 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1180.jpg) |
A siksikpuk (an Arctic ground squirrel) |
Colville Delta, Alaska North Slope Summer 1951 |
295 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1181.jpg) |
The spring melt at Oliktok Point |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
296 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1182.jpg) |
The spring melt continues - bare tundra is seen |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
297 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1183.jpg) |
Using a caterpillar tractor to launch a survey boat |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
298 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1184.jpg) |
Loading the weasel on "Goldie" |
Alaska, Oliktok Point, North Slope Summer 1951 |
299 | ![thumbnail picture](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508221234im_/http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ths/corp1185.jpg) |
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 |