Operation Windmill Expedition Member with Penguin
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Operation Windmill
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Image located in Robert B. Klaverkamp's collection. Klaverkamp, an enlisted Naval Correspondent, participated in Operation Windmill. Malcolm Davis, zookeeper at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park, was also on the expedition and was assigned to the Icebreaker USS Edisto (AG-89) with the express purpose of collecting penguins, other birds, and leopard seals.
- Summary
- Image of an Operation Windmill expedition member standing near a penguin in Antarctica. Behind them is the Icebreaker USS Burton Island (AG-88), one of the two Icebreakers used during the expedition. Operation Windmill (1947-1948) was an expedition established by the Chief of Naval Operations to train personnel, test equipment, and reaffirm American interests in Antarctica.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 02-223, Box 1, Folder Photographs
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1947-1948
- Standard number
- SIA2010-0646
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Animal, candid
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 4h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Animal, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Antarctica
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Research expeditions
- Scientific expeditions
- Snow
- Ice
- Icebreakers (Ships)
- Penguins
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12419
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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