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Bill Love and Ensign Harley Nygren At Leffingwell survey monument |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Lieutenant Don Jones observing angles with a T-3 theodolite |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Vincent Nageak |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Commander Robert Earle at Flaxman Island Standing at Leffingwell Survey marker from early 1900's |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Grave marker of an unknown on Flaxman Island |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911 |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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An outbuilding at Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911 |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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A group of Eskimos at Brownlow Point across from Flaxman Island |
Flaxman Island, Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Triangulation station NYGREN 1949 - 70 08 51.83200(N) 146 11 24.40800(W) |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Other than the cold, baseline measurements were facilitated by measuring across the flat lagoon ice from mainland point-to-point. Baselines were measured to second-order standards and 4-5 miles long. |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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Observing tower with wind screen |
Alaska North Slope Spring 1949 |
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When the melt begins, it's time to start working on the boats |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Looking over arm of the Beaufort Sea before the pack ice breaks up Oliktok Point Camp in distance in photo center |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Looking towards Tigvariak Camp across lagoon ice |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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No waves today - standing on the shoreline of a frozen sea |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Looking down the shoreline of Tigvariak Island towards the camp |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Watching the ice melt and breakup on the north shore of Tigvariak Island |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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A last trip across the ice by dog sled |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Gene Richards and Nogeak going for a final sled ride (or first swim) |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Ice receding from the shoreline Soon it will be time to put the boats in the water |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Eskimo diversion - flying high above the shore |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Description not available. |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Collecting fresh water on a berg near Cross Island on misty day |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Ice along the shore at sunset |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Building a hydrographic signal - used for near shore hydrographic work Stan Jeffers on right. |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Ice along the shore at Cross Island |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Jellyfish along an icy shoreline |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Tide gage installation - Abe Simmons and Harley Nygren |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Building a hydrographic signal - used for near shore hydrographic work |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Beginning to build a hydrographic signal |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Orange, white, and blue - survey launch next to ice berg |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Signal pole on Dinkum Sands - east side of Prudhoe Bay The existence of these sands has been the subject of litigation |
Dinkum Sands, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Collecting fresh water from ice berg Pools of fresh water collect on top of melting ice bergs |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Description not available. |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Survey launch towing dinghies after supplying observing camp |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Heading out to the Survey Launch #15 to start the day's work. |
Cross Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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A cloudy day at Tigvariak - length of beard indicates nearing end of season Andrew F. "Pierre" Menard with beard. |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Summer 1949 |
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A late summer sunset from a survey launch |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Stopping at a small Alaska town on the way south |
Barter Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Stopping at a small Alaska town on the way south |
Barter Island, Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Flying over the Colville River on the way home |
Alaska North Slope Summer 1949 |
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Flying over the Brooks Range enroute to North Slope |
Brooks Range, Alaska Winter 1950 |
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The sea ice off of Tigvariak Island |
Beaufort Sea, Alaska North Slope Winter 1950 |
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A sun pillar forms as the sun rises over the Arctic plain |
Alaska North Slope Winter 1950 |
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Drifting snow at Tigvariak Camp |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950 |
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Digging out the Tigvariak Island Camp |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950 |
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Harley Nygren |
Alaska North Slope Winter 1950 |
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Drifting snow at Tigvariak Camp |
Alaska, Tigvariak Island, North Slope Winter 1950 |