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Camp at Tigvariak Island. |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1949 |
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Guns and roses or at least some kind of flower. |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1950 |
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Home sweet wanigan. |
Alaska, Cross Island 1949 |
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Shore camp with geodetic signal tower and Shoran electronic navigation station tower. |
Alaska, Collinson Point 1950 |
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A nice day at the beach at a North Slope Shoran station. |
Alaska, Long Island 1950 |
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Abandoned fur trapper's facilities at Beechey Point. |
Alaska, Beechey Point 1950 |
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Abandoned fur trapper's facilities at Beechey Point. |
Alaska, Beechey Point 1950 |
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Hanging out in the mess hall quonset hut after a day's work. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point 1951 |
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Eskimo women and children at the Oliktok Point camp mess hall. |
Alaska, Oliktok Point 1951 |
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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 |
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A hydrographic survey launch in Beaufort Sea ice on a raw foggy day. |
Alaska, North Slope 1949 |
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Sunrise or sunset? Who knows when there is twenty-four hour daylight. |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island 1949 |
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Early shelters built of driftwood on the Arctic coast. |
Alaska, Cross Island 1949 |
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Looking forward on an Arctic Field Party survey launch at twilight. |
Alaska, North Slope 1950 |
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Remains of an early trading post. Probably the source of the name "Barter Island." |
Alaska, Barter Island 1950 |
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A view in the "Channeled Scablands" of eastern Washington. |
Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948 |
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Building an observing stand in eastern Washington. |
Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948 |
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Harley Nygren at an observing stand in eastern Washington. |
Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948 |
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Camp at a triangulation station in eastern Washington. |
Washington, Wenatchee October, 1948 |
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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 |
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A Navy landing ship used for supplies - frozen in to the Arctic Ocean in 1948 |
Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Digging out a weasel - not a fun job when it's 40 degrees below zero |
Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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The Barter Island Camp starts taking shape after a few days of digging |
Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Even the dogs thought it was cold |
Alaska, Barter Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Moving the camp to Tigvariak Island - hundreds of tons moved 100 miles |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A cat train on the move to Tigvariak Island |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Time to start digging out the equipment covered by snow over the winter |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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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 |
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Ice berg frozen in pack ice encountered while cat train moved across frozen sea |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Winter sea ice terrain of the Beaufort Sea |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A congealed old ice pressure ridge along the cat train route to Tigvariak Island |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Part of the cat train stopped at twilight |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A ski-equipped Norseman plane at Tigvariak Island |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Flying over the lagoon ice at Tigvariak Island |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Tigvariak Island Camp from the air - boats to left on beach line. |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A fine team of sled dogs at Tigvariak Island |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Dog sled at Tigvariak Island |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A fine team of sled dogs at Tigvariak Island |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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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 |
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Caribou shot by Eskimo hunter at Leavitt Island |
Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Description not available. |
Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Description not available. |
Leavitt Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Collecting ice to melt for drinking water Obviously not much water available for showers! |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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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 |
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A triangulated hydro signal on Tigvariak Island |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Roy Sylar observing angles |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A reconnaissance signal prior to triangulation observations at Patko Island |
Patko Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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The observing party at Patko Island |
Patko Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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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 |
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Bill Love avertising free service ahead on the road to Flaxman Island |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |