Collectors' List No. 108 • 2004
Ice & Snow: Antarctica and Mt Everest

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111 Operation Deep Freeze
US Base Little America, Bay of Whales, 1958. Thirty-six silver gelatin photographs; annotated, signed and dated verso. A detailed list of the annotations is available upon request:

The Collection
$22,000
111-1 US McMurdo Base
Communications room at the base, 20 x 25cm.

111-2 Checking core samples
A geologist checking core samples from a drilling rig used to drill the ice cap US base, Little America, Bay of Whales,
20 x 25cm.

111-3 American USS "Glacier"...
...smashing its way through ice up to 2m thick, 25 x 20cm.

111-4 Men of daring...
...At Little America Base, Bay of Whales, 20 x 25cm.

111-5 Photographer Robin Smith...
...wearing US Navy cold weather protective clothing, McMurdo Sound, 25 x 20cm.

111-6 Admiral George Dufek...
...on icebreaker "Glacier" (GB4), 25 x 20cm.

111-7 Admiral George Dufek
US Operation Deep Freeze Commander Admiral George Dufek steps from a US Navy ski plane . . .,Little America, Bay of Whales, 25 x 20cm.

111-8 AH Waite
US Army Signals Corp Antarctic Veteran, AH Waite with a can from Capt Scott's last expedition, 25 x 20cm.

111-9 An expeditioner...
...wearing a face mask . . ., Ross Island, McMurdo Sound, 25 x 20cm.

111-10 Officers of the base...
...playing golf with a red ball, US Little America base, Bay of Whales. 25 x 20cm.