Greenland Ice Cap in 1959

 

 

 

Photo by William M. Nichols, 61st TCS Pilot

 

Sondrestrom AB, Greenland.     Crew members inside the para-igloo.  Out of the wind and with a small gasoline burning camp stove having one burner, the temperature was 20 to 30 degrees warmer than the outside, but still below freezing.  Caption by Bill Nichols.  (Circa 1959)

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