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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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Nilas ice with frost flowers

Nilas ice with frost flowers

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Interlocking fingers of nilas ice with frost flowers

Interlocking fingers of nilas ice with frost flowers.

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Interlocking fingers of nilas ice with frost flowers with ice pack of multi-year ice extending to horizon

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

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Navigation display on USCG icebreaker HEALY at 76 44 N, 134 09 W

Navigation display on USCG icebreaker HEALY at 76 44 N, 134 09 W...

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Multi-year ice floes extending to the horizon

Multi-year ice floes extending to the horizon.

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An amazing assemblage of small pancakes

An amazing assemblage of small pancakes.

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Small and large pancakes coming together to form ice floes

Small and large pancakes coming together to form ice floes.

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The USCG icebreaker HEALY cruising in open water along an area dominated bypancake ice

The USCG icebreaker HEALY cruising in open water along an area...

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