Close

Service Interruption

 

Most viewed - Images by project
TS_03_8Heli01.jpg
66 viewsThe team is about to depart in the AS350 Squirrel helicopter.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos, NSIDC
AIDJEX1972_071.jpg
65 viewsAIDJEX 1972 pilot study. Inside NASA cv990 Murray Stateman at right
Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL
AIDJEX Web site
TS_03_7TonyArtistic.JPG
65 viewsAn aerial artistic image taken by Dr. Tony Worby.
Photo Credit: NSIDC Courtesy Tony Worby
02_station_life_03.jpg
Life on a Drifting Station57 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.
02_station_life_05.jpg
Life on a Drifting Station52 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.
01_station_ceremonies_05.jpg
Drifting Station Ceremonies51 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.
02_station_life_02.jpg
Life on a Drifting Station47 viewsAn interior view of the NP-1 tent, which served as both living quarters and work area. Station members lived for nine months on NP-1. Image credit: EWG.
02_station_life_04.jpg
Life on a Drifting Station47 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.
02_station_life_01.jpg
Life on a Drifting Station46 viewsThis tent, on display at the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia provided living quarters at NP-1, the first Russian drifting station established in 1937. Image credit: EWG.
06_polar_bears_06.jpg
Polar Bears46 viewsNot all of the ice phenomena on the ice floes were naturally occurring. Station members sometimes made the most of their surroundings, witnessed in this polar bear made of snow. Image credit: EWG.
01_station_ceremonies_03.jpg
Drifting Station Ceremonies45 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.
01_station_ceremonies_04.jpg
Drifting Station Ceremonies44 viewsThe station members of NP-25 gather for a final photograph during the closing ceremony. Image credit: EWG.
1074 files on 90 page(s)

Browse Galleries

View Index for All Albums

Help/FAQ

Photo & Image Gallery FAQ

Questions or comments about the NSIDC Photo Gallery? Contact the NSIDC User Services Office.

Look up snow and ice related words and terminology in our Cryosphere Glossary

Visit our Education Center to learn more about snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and research in cold regions.

Read about Scientists at NSIDC