Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Spring 2002

Operation Deep Freeze

Photo: U.S. Navy Photograph

The US Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze I, launched in December 1955, set up facilities in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, for use in the upcoming International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958. The men of Deep Freeze I weren’t the first to use the location chosen; both the Scott and Shackleton expeditions had established themselves there early in the century. Our photo shows men of Deep Freeze I inside the hut used by Shackleton during his 1907 expedition.

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