Cmdr. Melville J. Walters Jr. Operation Deep Freeze III Antarctic Research Collection
Commander Melville J. Walters was born in Washington D.C. and joined the Navy in 1943; between 1957 and 1958, during what was known as the International Geophysical Year, Walters was a supply officer at the McMurdo Naval Air Facility in the Antarctica. The McMurdo Sound Naval base, along with other...
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ftunisfloridatam:oai:digitalcommons.usf.edu:scua_finding_aid_all-1076 2023-07-30T03:56:26+02:00 Cmdr. Melville J. Walters Jr. Operation Deep Freeze III Antarctic Research Collection Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections and University Archives. Jones, Marta L. 2008-12-04T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/scua_finding_aid_all/77 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/scua_finding_aid_all/article/1076/viewcontent/viewcontent.cgi unknown Digital Commons @ University of South Florida https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/scua_finding_aid_all/77 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/context/scua_finding_aid_all/article/1076/viewcontent/viewcontent.cgi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Special Collections and University Archives Finding Aids: All Items Nelson Poynter Memorial Library -- Catalogs Florida -- Archival resources Archives -- Florida -- Catalogs Discoveries in geography -- History -- 20th century Antarctica Marine Science and Ichthyology Provenance Archival Science Library and Information Science text 2008 ftunisfloridatam 2023-07-20T18:04:36Z Commander Melville J. Walters was born in Washington D.C. and joined the Navy in 1943; between 1957 and 1958, during what was known as the International Geophysical Year, Walters was a supply officer at the McMurdo Naval Air Facility in the Antarctica. The McMurdo Sound Naval base, along with other stations like it, was used for Operation Deep Freeze III, a Navy supported research expedition undertaken to gather scientific data about the Antarctic. In his later years, Walters moved to the Tampa Bay Area, Florida; after his death, a group of items collected by Walters, both during his time spent at Operation Deep Freeze III, and some years after, ended up in the custody of Dr. Jose Torres, Marine Science professor at the University of South Florida. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica McMurdo Sound Digital Commons University of South Florida (USF) Antarctic The Antarctic McMurdo Sound Poynter ENVELOPE(-59.146,-59.146,-63.792,-63.792) |
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Commander Melville J. Walters was born in Washington D.C. and joined the Navy in 1943; between 1957 and 1958, during what was known as the International Geophysical Year, Walters was a supply officer at the McMurdo Naval Air Facility in the Antarctica. The McMurdo Sound Naval base, along with other stations like it, was used for Operation Deep Freeze III, a Navy supported research expedition undertaken to gather scientific data about the Antarctic. In his later years, Walters moved to the Tampa Bay Area, Florida; after his death, a group of items collected by Walters, both during his time spent at Operation Deep Freeze III, and some years after, ended up in the custody of Dr. Jose Torres, Marine Science professor at the University of South Florida. |
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