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Life on a Drifting Station40 viewsAs a rule, each North Pole camp served as the base camp for the activity of the high-latitude Sever ("North" in Russian) airborne data collecting expeditions. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station32 viewsTwo station members walking through the base camp of the high-latitude Sever expedition at Zhokov Island. Image credit: EWG.
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Scientific Instruments25 viewsWhen the anchors were not insulated, the snow melted out from around the mast bases, causing them to topple. Image credit: EWG.
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Scientific Instruments25 viewsAn IVO device for measuring the base height of cloud cover. IVO is the Russian abbreviation for this instrument. Image credit: EWG.
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159 viewsPrayer flags flutter in the wind just outside the village of Burje, the home base of Gearheard and colleagues during their stay in Tsum Valley, Nepal. Credit: Shari Gearheard
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599 viewsMount Dundas towers over Thule Airforce Base in Greenland.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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325 viewsThule Airforce Base glows in the morning sun.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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288 viewsPilots move the Bell 212 out of the hangar at Thule Airforce Base.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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269 viewsOn the way back to Thule Airforce Base.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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510 viewsThese glaciers now provide the over-land route between Qaanaaq and Thule Airforce Base (Pituffik).
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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282 viewsBase camp consisted of two sleeping tents and one cooking tent during the 2009-2010 LARISSA project.
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107 viewsThe last station that we serviced on the southern traverse was at Dye-2, the location of an abandoned U.S. military base, visible in this photo with the white-domed roof. This building used to hold 200+ soldiers in the during the Cold War and was eventually abandoned.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License.
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