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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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Mini-ridges of ice crystals covered by snow and ice pellets overlying ice pack

Mini-ridges of ice crystals covered by snow and ice pellets...

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Mini-ridges of ice crystals covered by snow and ice pellets overlying ice pack

Mini-ridges of ice crystals covered by snow and ice pellets...

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Surface covered by ice crystals

Surface covered by ice crystals.

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Ice crystals at small break in ice surface

Ice crystals at small break in ice surface

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Long needle-like ice crystals on top of ice surface

Long needle-like ice crystals on top of ice surface.

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Ice crystals at edge of water/ice surface in crack in ice pack

Ice crystals at edge of water/ice surface in crack in ice pack.

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Ice crystals on top of refrozen surface of melt pool

Ice crystals on top of refrozen surface of melt pool.

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Odd arrangement of ice crystals reminiscent of honeycomb

Odd arrangement of ice crystals reminiscent of honeycomb

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