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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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USCG icebreaker HEALY in relatively smooth first-year ice floes and nilas icefollowed by the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker LOUIS S

USCG icebreaker HEALY in relatively smooth first-year ice floes...

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USCG icebreaker HEALY in relatively smooth first-year ice floes and nilas icealongside the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker LOUIS S

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USCG icebreaker HEALY and Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker LOUIS S

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Frost flowers at Ice Camp

Frost flowers at Ice Camp

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Frost flowers at Ice Camp

Frost flowers at Ice Camp

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Camera lens camp showing scale of mini-hummocks on ice surface at Ice Camp

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Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon on left studying development of crack in...

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Frost flowers and various layers of ice looking at crack in ice

Frost flowers and various layers of ice looking at crack in ice.

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