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The National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station,

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The National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station, as seen from the summit of Observation Hill, Antarctica. The station was established in December 1955 and is the logistics hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program, with a harbor, landing strips on sea ice and shelf ice, and a helicopter pad. (Courtesy Photo)

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2000 - 2022
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Buildings at the McMurdo Station where Maj. Esther

A dog team from New Zealand-operated Scott Base is used to haul scientists and administrators to McMurdo Station for mail and supplies. PHOTO from June 1984 All Hands Magazine

Winter Over personnel walk across the ice to board the C-141C Starlifter that will transport them from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to Christchurch, New Zealand, during Operation DEEP FREEZE 2001

Senior Master Sgt. Joseph Carter, an occupational safety

Supplies for the Navy team repairing an LC-130 Hercules aircraft which crashed in 1971 while on a National Science Foundation mission, are unloaded from an LC-130 of Antarctic Development Squadron 6 (VXE-6). After 3 months of work by the team, the Foundation's LC-130 was able to fly out from the crash site on January 10, 1988

Sailboats sit grounded in the La Guancha Marina after

Lt. Col. Trace Dotson, 304th Expeditionary Airlift

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star, a 399-foot

National Science Foundation members say goodbye on the Pegasus runway to those who are staying to winter over at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in support of Operation DEEP FREEZE. Deep Freeze is a joint military operation of the US armed forces and the New Zealand Defence Forces, to provide logistic support for the US National Science Foundation's Antarctic program

An LC-130 "Skibird" from the New York Air National

Military Sealift Command chartered ship MT Maersk Peary

Port view of the anchored National Science Foundation's vessel HERO

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c 17 antarctica globemaster iii jblm joint base lewis mcchord nsf 62nd airlift wing national science foundation odf arctic research 446 airlift wing operation deep freeze 94th airlift wing 62nd airlift wing public affairs mcmurdo station 62nd 446th airlift wings support science through operation deep freeze dvids ice arctic landscape