Activities of men aboard USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) in the Atlantic Ocean during Operation High Jump. Navy clothing is issued -- A man poses in navy blues, pants, winter jacket, arctic sea boots, waterproof trousers, rain jacket, wool mittens, winter parka, boots, face mask and goggles, winter helmet and woolen sweater aboard USS Mt. Olympus.
Four Russian scientists rescued from ice at Greenland Sea in the Arctic ocean. The deck of a Soviet ice-breaker. The North Pole camp on an iceberg. A man looks through binoculars from an Soviet ice-breaker. The marooned men.
Cruise of the whaler 'Herman'. Glaciers and ice sheets in the Arctic. Dogs pull men on sledges across the terrain. They reach a ship at the edge of the ice sheet. A man waiting there greets the native. Crew dancing on the ship. Native children dance. Natives load up sleds with purchases. Ship sails through open waters. Bird in the sky. Vast ocean ahead. A hunting party is sighted in the distance in East Cape. They are adrift on an ice floe. A tent on the floe. Some of the crew row in a small boat up to the floe. They find a sick man in the tent, Captain Robert Bartlett's native guide. They check the man, carry him to the boat and take him to the ship.
Arctic cruise of the Whaler "Herman." Explorer Stefansson's camp at Banks Island, Canada. Two polar cubs of Captain P. Bernard play with a man. The cubs being fed as they eat from a container. The cubs with chains around their necks as they play.
Whaler "Herman" in Siberia, Russia during arctic cruise. Natives on sleds as they bring in news of Captain Robert Bartlett to a ship in Emma Harbor in Siberia. The Eskimo natives travel across a snow covered field on sleds pulled by dogs. Captain Robert Bartlett comes aboard SS Herman (with news of the fate of the ship Karluk and its survivors marooned on Wrangel Island). Captain Christian Pedersen welcomes Bartlett aboard. Ice being cleared for the ship to get underway at sea. Ice floats on the surface of the sea. Captain Bartlett and Captain Pedersen aboard SS Herman, a trading and whaling vessel.
Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.