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McMurdo Station

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Photographs of McMurdo Station, Antarctica

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  • How to describe McMurdo Station. It’s the largest station in Antarctica by far, a sprawling place, functional and utilitarian, a work in progress since its beginnings before the 1957-1958 IGY. And it has character. As a photographer I'm drawn to the older structures, the early buildings housing Cosray and building 137, the quonset huts, and others like the BFC, FEMC shops and Paint Barn. These places have character, part of it is architectural, and part is how these utilitarian shells have been adapted into unique living and work spaces by the people who use them.
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  • McMurdo Station from T Site. A permit or escort only area because of the sensitive communications equipment up here. That speck in the air is an LC-130 heading for Christchurch, NZ.
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  • Observation Hill from T Site.
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  • Crater Heights and T Site from OB Hill
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  • Summit of Observation Hill with cross set here by the crew of the 1911-1913 Terra Nova Expedition in memory of Scott, Wilson, Oats, Bowers and Evans who died while returning from the South Pole.
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  • Inscription on the cross: To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield
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  • Wide angle panorama of McMurdo from OB Hill showing Hut Point on left and T Site on right.
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  • Most of the inhabited part of Mac Town from OB Hill. Left of center the white building with ramp going down the hill is Crary Lab where my office was located.
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  • The Chalet, NSF administration
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  • The Chalet interior
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  • The Chalet interior
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  • Raising the Flags of the original 12 Antarctic Treaty signatory nations. The 12 flags are flown during the Austral Summer when the sun does not set.
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  • Chapel of the Snows
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  • B-134 Fish Hut on McMurdo Sound
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  • Wind blown snow on McMurdo Sound
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  • Elaine Hood, who, among her many duties, gets to guide and direct the Artists and Writers who are on station. A thankless task that.  Thanks to Elaine all the training, flights and field trips go off like clock work (unless the weather interferes, which it does.)
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  • Cosray building, housing the longest running experiment at McMurdo, since 1960.
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  • 1960's era Cos-Ray building located on the road between McMurdo and New Zealand's Scott Base.
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  • No underground utilities at McMurdo  because of the permafrost. Some (all?) of the large tanks in this photo have been converted into unheated storage.
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  • Building 155, Galley
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  • Cargo Office and Cargo Warehouse/BFC Food Room
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  • BFC (Berg Field Center), those are Scott Tents leaning against the wall looking like giant Christmas trees.
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  • BFC (Berg Field Center)
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  • BFC (Berg Field Center)
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  • Crary Lab entrance area
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  • Crary Lab looking down the ramp toward phase 2 level where my office was located.
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  • Early 60's Building 137, once used for NSF Berthing, currently not in use.
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  • Building 137
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  • Radar Sat dome and buildings.
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  • Carp Shops sheds
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  • Cargo storage yards
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  • Construction Storage
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  • Carpenters working outside in below zero windchill.
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  • Tanker Truck
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  • Observaton Hill & Carpenter Shops
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  • Building 155, Galley
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  • Warehouse
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  • Skua, where unwanted, lost and discarded items end up
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  • Skua, where unwanted, lost, discarded items end up
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  • Skua, where unwanted, lost and discarded items end up
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  • Building 141, home of the Fuelies
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  • McMurdo and Observation Hill after snow from Hut Point Ridge Loop Trail
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  • Mt Erebus Volcano and Castle Rock from Observation Hill. You can make out the hiking trail from McMurdo to Castle Rock, about 8 miles round trip.
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  • Hiking toward Castle Rock, Apple emergency shelter on left.
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  • Approaching Castle Rock with Mount Erebus beyond.
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  • Approaching Castle Rock with Mount Erebus beyond.
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  • Castle Rock
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  • Chris Kenry at Castle Rock. Temperature was about 10 deg F, but below zero with a steady Hut Point wind out of the south.
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  • Mount Erebus, Mount Terror and Ross Ice Shelf from Castle Rock
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  • Jeff Ludwig and Mike Lucibella hiking to Castle Rock
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  • View out toward Mt. Discovery. The tracks on the Ross Ice Shelf leads to SIMPLE camp, where the team was testing Artemis,  an underwater/under ice robot prototype destined for Jupiter's moon Europa
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  • FEMC (Facilities Engineering, Maintenance & Construction) Trade Shops
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  • FEMC Trade Shops
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  • FEMC Trade Shops
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  • FEMC Trade Shops
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  • FEMC Trade Shops
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  • FEMC Trade Shops
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  • Carpenters Shop
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  • Carpenters Shop
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  • Carpenters Shop
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  • Carpenters Shop
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  • Carpenters Shop
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  • Paint Barn
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  • Paint Barn
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  • Paint Barn
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  • Paint Barn
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  • Paint Barn
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  • McMurdo Station Coffee House
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  • Coffee House, McMurdo Station
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  • Coffee House
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  • Coffee House
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  • McMurdo Radio Station in Building 155
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • McMurdo's unique facial hair inventory control
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  • Gym and Helo Hanger
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  • Gym cleanup after Halloween 2015
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  • Helo Ops
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  • Berthing dorms looking toward Hut Point
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  • Where McMurdo now sits was once used as a ski Slope for practicing technique during Scott's & Shackleton's early expeditions.
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  • Observation Tube, a 24" diameter tube with ladder that leads to an underwater observation area.
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  • Divers in McMurdo Sound from the OB Tube.
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  • Diver in McMurdo Sound from the OB Tube.
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  • Hut Point and Discovery Hut from McMurdo Station
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  • Vince's Cross on Hut Point
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  • Vince's Cross on Hut Point
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Snow mobiles on McMurdo Sound from Hut Point. Probably the biology team returning from Big Razorback Island where they have a Weddell Seal study area. #3 Fish Hut in background.
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  • Extremely cold and windy day out on McMurdo Sound
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  • Sea Ice Pressure at Hut Point
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  • Shrine on Hut Point Ridge Loop trail
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  • McMurdo from above the Discovery Hut
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  • The fish hut were hauled off the sea ice of McMurdo Sound early this year (2019) because of the thin ice.
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