TOP: Captain C. H. Norcihill (right), commander of the United States Navy Antarctic Support Force, and Mr A. Fowler (middle), deputy director of the polar programme division of the National Science Foundation, are shown one of the three pumps which have been used to make an ice pier in Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Sound. The 800ft by 400ft pier is 25ft thick and has been built-up by pumping water from below the ice. The floating pier will be covered by a foot of lava ash, and it will be used to unload the supply ships. LEFT: Lieutenant E. Goepffert, the United States Navy’s officer in charge of the winter crew at McMurdo Sound, removing the top section of the pumping hose.
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121TOP: Captain C. H. Norcihill (right), commander of the United States Navy Antarctic Support Force, and Mr A. Fowler (middle), deputy director of the polar programme division of the National Science Foundation, are shown one of the three pumps which have been used to make an ice pier in Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Sound. The 800ft by 400ft pier is 25ft thick and has been built-up by pumping water from below the ice. The floating pier will be covered by a foot of lava ash, and it will be used to unload the supply ships. LEFT: Lieutenant E. Goepffert, the United States Navy’s officer in charge of the winter crew at McMurdo Sound, removing the top section of the pumping hose. Press, 6 September 1976, Page 4
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