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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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Small pancake ice

Small pancake ice

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Ice floes interspersed with nilas ice and brash ice

Ice floes interspersed with nilas ice and brash ice.

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Frazil ice to left, rafting interlocking fingers of nilas to right, and icefloes extending to horizon

Frazil ice to left, rafting interlocking fingers of nilas to...

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Pancakes frozen together in bottom half of image, some frazil ice, andinterlocking fingers of nilas ice

Pancakes frozen together in bottom half of image, some frazil ice...

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Pancakes freezing together

Pancakes freezing together

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Pancakes freezing together

Pancakes freezing together

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Large pancake floes

Large pancake floes. Note the structure of the floes where it can...

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Pancakes with remnant of older ice

Pancakes with remnant of older ice

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