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MATS C-124 and Navy R5D aircraft operating in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze
During U.S. Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. A tracked vehicle moves on snow in front of Observation Hill. (This area would become Mcmurdo Station.) A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) C-124C Aircraft taxis down sea-ice runway and turns around to takeoff . It makes makes a long takeoff roll and breaks ground with slow rate of climb, churning up a fog of snow in the process. . Small weasel with small trailer with fire extinguisher on it. Navy R5D Aircraft in the background taxiing for take off. R5D taxis. Yellow fuel truck is seen. R5D makes a jet assisted takeoff. Flame is seen from the JATO bottles under the aircraft during takeoff roll and much trailing smoke, as the aircraft breaks ground with a high rate of climb.
Members of the Byrd Expedition with dog sledges. The set up camp at foot of Rockefeller Mountains in Antarctica.
Byrd Expedition Explorers camp at foot of the Rockefeller Mountains in Antarctica. Men tie their shoe laces outside a tent. Men climb a mountain. A man climbs up. He takes out some papers from his backpack and takes pictures of the same. He climbs further upwards over the rocks, an ice axe in hand. A dog sledge moves across the terrain. Men wrap and tie load onto the sledge. Take out food from cans. Huskies in chains on the snow. Men put up a tent. A man uses a radio transmitter. Huskies around sledges. Men load and unload things.
Explorers at a monument dedicated to past explorers in Antarctica.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 14-16 December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Byrd Expedition Huskies pull sledges. Explorers camp at foot of Rockefeller Mountains in Antarctica.
Byrd Expedition geological party camp site at foot of Rockefeller mountains in Antarctica. Huskies pull sledges across the terrain. Men on sledges. Tents at the camp site. A slight blizzard over the glaciers. Men outside the tents. Rocky hills. Men on sledges move away.
Explorers with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition film whales in Antarctica.
Explorers in Antarctica. Man with a dog sledge. Melted glaciers in the water. Dogs pull the sledge. Explorers with camera equipment. Whales in the water. Men record the film. Whales emerge and then again do below the water several times. Sunlight reflected off the water. Melted glaciers in the water.
Byrd Expedition Explorers film mother and baby seals in Antarctica.
Byrd Expedition Explorers film seals in Antarctica. Dogs pull sledge with man on top. Seals lying on the ice. One enters the water, another moves over the ice. Skin and hind flippers of seal. A seal slides into a hole in the ice sheet. Seals lying around on the ice. Men on ski near the seals. A mother seal with her baby. The baby rests on the mother seal, sucks on the mother. Another baby seal lies next to the mother. The baby lying on its back. The mother rubs her back on the ice. The mother suckles the baby. Two seals emerge from the water and climb out onto the ice.
