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Paths Less Taken

Scientists, sailors, pilots, divers, and other members of the NOAA family and its predecessor agencies have worked on every continent and in every climate that exists on Earth.

This collection records but a small fraction of that experience but will take you from Arctic regions to the South Pole, island-hopping from tropics to polar regions, and from the stratosphere to the bottom of the sea.

Sub Categories

Boats anchored offshore from Pinnacle Rock
Islands in the Sun
Measuring a Planet - Satellite Triangulation
Emperor penguin colony at Cape Washington in the Ross Sea
The Antarctic
Harley Nygren dressed in the latest Arctic style
The Arctic Field Party (1949-1951)
The bow of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR
The Northern Seas, Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

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Angular brash ice

Angular brash ice

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Angular brash ice

Angular brash ice

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Small pancakes forming an almost continuous floe

Small pancakes forming an almost continuous floe

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Nilas ice cracking and refreezing along boundaries between individual pieces ofice

Nilas ice cracking and refreezing along boundaries between...

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Ice floes with melt pools in various stages of refreezing

Ice floes with melt pools in various stages of refreezing

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Large and small pancake ice freezing together

Large and small pancake ice freezing together

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Nilas ice exhibiting rafting

Nilas ice exhibiting rafting

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Refreezing brash ice with nearly solid pack ice ahead

Refreezing brash ice with nearly solid pack ice ahead.

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