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USS Glacier, GB-4, tied up in Rhode Island, making ready to leave for Antarctica

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-045

Date Created:

September 1956
Tractor train commander gives signals to D-8 drivers on 650 mile trop from Little America V to 120W 80S.

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-086

Date Created:

December 1956
Crevasse near Little America V is examined after being blasted open by C-4 charge near Little America V.

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-078

Date Created:

November 1956
Kainan Bay, Ross Ice Shelf, where navy supply ships off load supplies for Deep Freeze II Operations

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-062

Date Created:

November 1956
USS Glacier passes by Beaufort Island in the Ross Sea, enroute to McMurdo Sound.

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-056

Date Created:

October 1956
The southern ice pack. USS Glacier in the Ross Sea, ice pack surrounding Antarctica

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-053

Date Created:

October 1956
First tractor train from Little America V to 80S 120 W travels over sastrugi on 650 mile trip to Byrd Station.

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-087

Date Created:

December 1956
Weddell seal on the ice of the Ross Sea

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-041

Date Created:

October 1956
Photographer shooting an Adelie Penguin near Little America V

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-042

Date Created:

November 1956
Tractor train with material to build Byrd Sation 650 miles from Little America V.

Creator:

Larsen, Calvin

Identifier:

SPEC-PA-56-0020-094

Date Created:

December 1956