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Drifting Station Ceremonies34 viewsFlag ceremonies at North Pole stations typically marked the establishment of each new team. Image credit: EWG.
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Drifting Station Ceremonies32 viewsSimilar to the opening ceremonies, the closing ceremonies also involved firing guns and rifles. This ceremony commemorates the closing of North Pole Station 25. Image credit: EWG.
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Drifting Station Ceremonies44 viewsThe station members of NP-30, one of the last Russian North Pole Stations, gather for a photograph during the closing ceremony. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station40 viewsAn aerial view of NP-6. The small building in the foreground is the diesel power station. The big building to the right is the ward room (marine terminology was used on the North Pole stations). The ward room was a dining room and recreation room, with billiards, ping-pong, movies, and a meeting room. Image credit: EWG.
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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 Station17 viewsSunset at a North Pole station. The large antennae are for studying ionospheric processes. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings18 viewsDue to changes in the ice floe surface, it was not uncommon for camps to relocate to more stable ground. This photograph was taken during the rebuilding of the camp NP-22 in 1980. Aluminum tent poles are at the right, and an overturned boat is at the left. Image credit: EWG.
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Ice Hazards18 viewsMost of the time, the only way to deliver supplies to the North Pole stations was by plane. Weather conditions in the sky could be just as harsh and extreme as conditions on the ground. Here, a biplane is grounded after an accident near the Kara Sea in 1981. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis2672 viewsThis image compares the average sea ice extent for September 2007 to September 2005; the magenta line indicates the long-term median from 1979 to 2000. September 2007 sea ice extent was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles), compared to 5.57 million square kilometers (2.14 million square miles) in September 2005. This image is from the NSIDC Sea Ice Index.
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Sail of the USS Hawkbill117 viewsThe USS Hawkbill surfaces at the North Pole during SCICEX 99. Photo courtesy of ASL.
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360 viewsThis LC-139 Hercules took the 2008-2009 U.S.-Norway Traverse team from McMurdo Station to the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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346 viewsTed Scambos and the traverse team arrive at the South Pole, for the beginning of the U.S.-Norway Traverse of East Antarctica.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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