Beardmore Station and R4D just after establishing in September 1957.

Little America Band performed for the Deep Freeze II crew at the mid-winter party.

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, Peter Schoek (yellow) and Hugh Bennet eating in Tucker Sno-Cat

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D-8 Cat at -40F moving fuel at Little America prior to the winter night.

"Grat day. Mother and baby seal basking on the bay ice, 1934"

Hugh Bennet in a Tucker Sno-Cat in the field.

Chess game during the winter night at Little America

QMC Ben Verboncouer, Train Commander, second train return trip from Byrd Station to Little America .

Ship's cook 1st class R.H. Banasiak, USN, in the midst of large steak grilling operation.

Little America winter night storm.

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

Radioman 1st class B.F. Grice sings for the Deep Freeze II crew at Little America's mid-winter night party.

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

HM1 H.E. Butler performs for the Deep Freeze II crew at the Little America mid-winter night party.

LCDR Hancock, supply officer, tries his hand as barber, as J.A. Alvarez, Argentine meteorologist looks on.

Byrd Station as built from material brough by first train, food supplies stacked in foreground.

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

AB1 Owalt and Captain Pullen eating a meal in one of the Jamesway huts we pt up at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier.

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

QMC Ben Verboncouer, USN Leading Chief at Little America V, is ready for mid-winter party.

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

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

Weddell seal on the ice of the Ross Sea

Return of the Jacob Ruppert - glistening sun.

Last of 2 R4Ds leave for McMurdo after off-loading supplies to build WX Communications Camp.

Dr. Hans Bengaard, Danish ionosphere scientist at Little America V, IGY, Antarctica

Photographer shooting an Adelie Penguin near Little America V

Little America after the winter night of 1957. Entire camp covered by drifting snow.

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

Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Island in the background.

Large iceberg breaks away from the Ross Ice Shelf and drifts into the Ross Sea.

Second tractor train ready to leave for Byrd Station in -45F.

Weddell seal and calf on the ice of Ross Sea.

Weddell seal on the ice of the Ross Sea (close up)

The five of us who built the camp. Left to Right: HM1 Smittle, RMC McCue, Captain Pullen, PHC Larsen, and AB1 Oswalt.

First tractor train to Byrd Station carried material to build a station at 80S 120W, 650 miles from Little America V.

Tractor train in blizzard on Byrd Plateau, led by PHC Calvin Larsen, assistant commander, on skiis.

Pancake ice seen in the Ross Sea, close to northern edge of pack ice.

PO1 Smittle and CPO McCue eating at Beardmore WX Station, IGY, Antarctica

Recon member digs into bridge of crevasse to plant a C-4 charge, near Little America V.

R4D taxis after off-loading material to build Beardmore Station

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, PHC Calvin Larsen.

Chief McCue taking radar reflector out so then can find us again.

Navy R4D ski plane taxis on McMurdo Sound bay ice.

First tractor train bound for Byrd Station with material to build that station.

Tractor train in blizzard on Byrd Plateau, led by PHC Calvin Larsen, assistant commander, on skiis.

Dr. Albert Crary, Leader Ross Ice Shelf Traverse makes an observation.

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party about to leave Little America for traverse of ice shelf.

"Sunrise and sunset - the beginning of the Midnight Sun, Oct. 21, 1934"

Second tractor train ready to leave for Byrd Base in -45F.

Dr. H.C. Hoinkes, Austrian IGY Meteorologist making an observation at Little America.

Supply dump at Kainan Bay where supplies were put when offloaded from ships.

Ice formation.

RMC McCue sends weather report to NAF McMurdo for planes dropping supplies at the South Pole Station.

Ross Ice Shelf crevasse as seen fro the air, near Little America V

Face of the Ross Ice Shelf enters the Ross Sea.

USS Glacier passes through the Ross Sea Ice Pack enroute to McMurdo Sound.

USS Glacier leaves an open water way in the ice pack in the Ross Sea, enroute to Antarctica

Iceberg in the Ross Sea, seen from USS Glacier, GB-4, enroute to Antarctica

Second tractor train ready to leave Little America V for Byrd Station, 650 miles away, in -45F.

USS Glacier, GB-4, coated with ice after a heavy storm in the South Pacific enroute to Antarctica

Second tractor returning to Little America V after dropping cargo at Byrd Station.

Chaplain John Zoller, USN, entertains crew at mid-winter party.

Ross Ice Shelf crevasse is examined after being blasted open by C-4 charge near Little America V.

Little America V, aerial view at end of summer season.

Dr. Albert Crary, Leader Ross Ice Shelf Traverse, setting up theodolite.

"Just after a storm - with tent town in the foreground, 1934"

R4D from Little America off-loads fuel into 5000 gallon tanks for tractors

Navy R4D ski planes bring supplies to Beardmore WX Station, IGY, Antarctica

Ross Ice Shelf Traverse stopped in the field for obersrvatons near Roosevelt Island

PHC Calvin L. Larsen, the photographer and driver on the first tractor train to Byrd Station.

Beardmore Station after antennas had been raised.

IGY Meteorologist J. A. Alvarez, Argentina, works on an IGY weather chart at Little America

Cook at Little America checks the steaks.

Five of us built camp. Sun had just risen here. Beardmore.

"On the Ross Sea - last of the Antarctic Sunset - just before a storm, 1935"

Shell Motor Spirits (gasolene) at Scott's camp at Cape Evans, 1910

Red sky.

First tractor train carries material to build Byrd Base at 80S 120W, 650 miles away from Little America V

McMurdo Sound Station, Chapel in background.

Second train returning to Little America V across Marie Byrd Land, complete 1300 mile round trip.

First tractor train bound for Byrd Station, 650 miles from Little America.

Peter Schoek, IGY Scientist making an observation with a sun compass on Sno-Cat.

Two R4D supply the camp at Beardmore.

AB1 Oswalt and HM1 Smittle assemble radar reflectors to be placed around camp for incoming aircraft.

Second tractor train ready to leave for Byrd Station in -45F.

Little America in September 1957, as Deep Freeze II crew continued to dig supplies for coming summer's operations.

IGY Scientist working on a radiation reading device.

Captain Pullen, USMC, the cook for the day, serves Chief McCue.

Vladimer Rastorguev, IGY Meteorologist from Russia, enters weather observation on weather chart.

Lead rig of tractor train heads for 120W 80S following traces of recon party who laid trail.

Crevasse sighted and flagged by recon member in the helicopter, near Little America V

R4D Que Sera was the first plane to land at the South Pole.

Hans Bengaard, Denmark, ionosphere physicist, reads film from IGY observation of ionosphere.

Deep Freeze II crew eating meal at Little America mess hall during winter night of IGY.

Byrd Station after material was brought by trains, one ahead of two.

Williams Field with Little America and Kainan Bay in background.

Tractor train approaches a snow cairne on the trail, built by trail recon crew every 20 miles, then 5 flags to a mile.