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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.

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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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Floes of multi-year ice with melt pools and hummocky appearance

Floes of multi-year ice with melt pools and hummocky appearance

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Floes of multi-year ice

Floes of multi-year ice

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Broken ice with rough sculpted appearance surface next to USCG icebreakerHEALY

Broken ice with rough sculpted appearance surface next to USCG...

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Rafted nilas which as it thickens become grey-white ice

Rafted nilas which as it thickens become grey-white ice. Note...

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Interlocking fingers of nilas ice with frost flowers with floe of multi-year icein upper center of image

Interlocking fingers of nilas ice with frost flowers with floe of...

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Interlocking fingers of nilas ice

Interlocking fingers of nilas ice

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Hummocky multi-year ice with refrozen melt pools

Hummocky multi-year ice with refrozen melt pools

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Multi-year ice with refrozen melt pools and relatively large berg-like chunk ofice frozen into floes

Multi-year ice with refrozen melt pools and relatively large berg...

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