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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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An ice cave with a freeze-dried mummified bird

An ice cave with a freeze-dried mummified bird

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Stalactites and masses of ice crystals

Stalactites and masses of ice crystals

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A mass of ice crystals at the end of the cave

A mass of ice crystals at the end of the cave

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Ice crystals growing in a small crevasse

Ice crystals growing in a small crevasse

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Ice crystals

Ice crystals

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Ice crystals

Ice crystals

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The entrance to the cave

The entrance to the cave

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Intrepid explorers were rewarded by glimpses of crystal-lined ice cavern

Intrepid explorers were rewarded by glimpses of crystal-lined ice...

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