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NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Catalog of Images

100	Camp at Tigvariak Island.	Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1949
101	Guns and roses or at least some kind of flower.	Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1950
102	Home sweet wanigan.	Alaska, Cross Island 1949
103	Shore camp with geodetic signal tower and Shoran electronic navigation station tower.	Alaska, Collinson Point 1950
104	A nice day at the beach at a North Slope Shoran station.	Alaska, Long Island 1950
105	Abandoned fur trapper's facilities at Beechey Point.	Alaska, Beechey Point 1950
106	Abandoned fur trapper's facilities at Beechey Point.	Alaska, Beechey Point 1950
107	Hanging out in the mess hall quonset hut after a day's work.	Alaska, Oliktok Point 1951
108	Eskimo women and children at the Oliktok Point camp mess hall.	Alaska, Oliktok Point 1951
109	The hydro fleet ready for work. Boats painted orange for safety as they would be highly visible in the ice pack.	Alaska, Cross Island 1950
110	A hydrographic survey launch in Beaufort Sea ice on a raw foggy day.	Alaska, North Slope 1949
111	Sunrise or sunset? Who knows when there is twenty-four hour daylight.	Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1949
112	Early shelters built of driftwood on the Arctic coast.	Alaska, Cross Island 1949
113	Looking forward on an Arctic Field Party survey launch at twilight.	Alaska, North Slope 1950
114	Remains of an early trading post. Probably the source of the name "Barter Island."	Alaska, Barter Island 1950
115	A view in the "Channeled Scablands" of eastern Washington.	Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948
116	Building an observing stand in eastern Washington.	Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948
117	Harley Nygren at an observing stand in eastern Washington.	Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948
118	Camp at a triangulation station in eastern Washington.	Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948
119	A winter sunset over the North Slope - note the parallel ridges in the snow. They always lay ENE-WSW in this area. The orientation of the ridges was used to navigate away from camp.	Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949
120	A Navy landing ship used for supplies - frozen in to the Arctic Ocean in 1948	Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949
121	Digging out a weasel - not a fun job when it's 40 degrees below zero	Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949
122	The Barter Island Camp starts taking shape after a few days of digging	Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949
123	Even the dogs thought it was cold	Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949
124	Moving the camp to Tigvariak Island - hundreds of tons moved 100 miles	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
125	A cat train on the move to Tigvariak Island	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
126	Time to start digging out the equipment covered by snow over the winter	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
127	A cat train on the move across the tundra Moving equipment and supplies from Barter Island to Tigvariak Island Black object is a boat hull for use in the summer.	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
128	Ice berg frozen in pack ice encountered while cat train moved across frozen sea	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
129	Winter sea ice terrain of the Beaufort Sea	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
130	A congealed old ice pressure ridge along the cat train route to Tigvariak Island	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
131	Part of the cat train stopped at twilight	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
132	A ski-equipped Norseman plane at Tigvariak Island	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
133	Flying over the lagoon ice at Tigvariak Island	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
134	Tigvariak Island Camp from the air - boats to left on beach line.	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
135	A fine team of sled dogs at Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
136	Dog sled at Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
137	A fine team of sled dogs at Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
138	Caribou being butchered and skinned by Eskimo hunter at Leavitt Island Caribou steak that night and some for the dogs too!	Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
139	Caribou shot by Eskimo hunter at Leavitt Island	Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
140	Description not available.	Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
141	Description not available.	Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
142	Collecting ice to melt for drinking water Obviously not much water available for showers!	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
143	Large planes with conventional landing gear can land on the sea ice A DC-3 offshore at Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
144	A triangulated hydro signal on Tigvariak Island	Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949
145	Roy Sylar observing angles	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
146	A reconnaissance signal prior to triangulation observations at Patko Island	Patko Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
147	The observing party at Patko Island	Patko Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
148	An "O" camp wanigan - observer's living space while at station Heating very inefficient - top bunks at 100 degrees Bottom bunk at 0 degrees	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949
149	Bill Love avertising free service ahead on the road to Flaxman Island	Alaska North Slope Spring 1949

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