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Life on a Drifting Station43 viewsTents at NP-1 served as both living and working areas. On subsequent stations, however, such as that pictured here, tents were used mainly for supply storage. Plywood was used for buildings that housed people and laboratories. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings17 viewsEven if materials didn't need to be housed within a building, storing them outside also posed difficulties. Supplies were stacked on fuel barrels to elevate them above the snow and to protect them from melt water during summer. Image credit: EWG.
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348 viewsThis shack housed science equipment and experimenters during the traverse.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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406 viewsThe South Pole station houses a number of vehicles, including this tractor.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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245 viewsDogs guard the houses in Qaanaaq
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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154 viewsDawn breaks on a clear day in Siorapaluk.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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133 viewsA house on the shore of Tasersuatsiaq (Lake Ferguson).

Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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105 viewsAnother house on the shore of Tasersuatsiaq (Lake Ferguson).

Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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300 viewsA close-up from the helicopter of the choppy ice near the coast by Jakobshavn glacier. These patterns were almost as deep as a one-story house, I would guess.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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262 viewsA close-up from the helicopter of the choppy ice near the coast by Jakobshavn glacier. These patterns were almost as deep as a one-story house, I would guess.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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115 viewsMetal frames await the installation of solar panels on the roof of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). The solar array is part of the NSIDC Green Data Center cut energy consumption for data center cooling by more than 90 percent. —Credit: Ron Weaver/NSIDC
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83 viewsSupplies for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Green Data Center sit ready to be lifted to the roof for installation. —Credit: Ron Weaver/NSIDC
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