A PHOTOGRAPHIC MISSION IN THE ANTARCTIC. —Photographers of the United States Navy take an aerial camera and 300lb of specialised equipment to the top of Observation Hill (1100ft one of the Antarctic’s better-known landmarks. LEFT: The heavily-laden sledge being hauled up the rocky slope. The three photographers took seven hours to reach the summit with all their equipment RIGHT: The aerial camera mounted on the top of Observation Hill. In the background is Mount Erebus (13,350ft the only known active volcano in the Antarctic. The main purpose of the men’s mission was to obtain for the Navy a panoramic picture of McMurdo Sound showing the American camp from a southern Vantage point. —United States Navy photographs,
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 13
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116A PHOTOGRAPHIC MISSION IN THE ANTARCTIC.—Photographers of the United States Navy take an aerial camera and 300lb of specialised equipment to the top of Observation Hill (1100ft one of the Antarctic’s better-known landmarks. LEFT: The heavily-laden sledge being hauled up the rocky slope. The three photographers took seven hours to reach the summit with all their equipment RIGHT: The aerial camera mounted on the top of Observation Hill. In the background is Mount Erebus (13,350ft the only known active volcano in the Antarctic. The main purpose of the men’s mission was to obtain for the Navy a panoramic picture of McMurdo Sound showing the American camp from a southern Vantage point. —United States Navy photographs, Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 13
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