Slide #02: Aerial View of Wilkes Station and Windmill Islands | ARC Archives Catalog
Title:
Slide #02: Aerial View of Wilkes Station and Windmill Islands
ID:
0B25DC78-9B63-E41E-BA2E1033B2D3345D
Date:
1959
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Description:
Wilkes Station from the air, during the Australian take-over in January 1959. In the foreground is the Southern Ocean, with a few stray ice floes. In the middle ground is one of the rocky peninsulas of the "Windmill Islands", with the Station on its tip. Some 3 km in the background the peninsulas are covered by the East Antarctic ice sheet, rising for 2700 km to the South Pole. Original Slide 2 of 30.
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ARC Archives Catalog
File size (MB):
57.7
Full-res MD5:
98752374810b04d4c0c4feec0538740c
Publisher:
NSIDC
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