The McCall Glacier Project and Its Logistics

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Mason, Robert W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1959
• Subjects: IGY 1957-58 Research publications; McCall; Arctic; Brooks Range; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66765

Describes the establishment and supply of two camps for this United States IGY micrometeorological and glacier-movement survey program, 1957-58. The McCall, an accessible valley glacier in the Romanzof Mts., eastern Brooks Range, northern Alaska, was chosen for the study during a reconnaissance flight in Aug. 1956. Transport was by air: prefabricated buildings, 34 tons of fuel and 18 tons of supplies and rations for the four-man party were parachuted from U.S. Air Force C-119 cargo planes during the 18-month program. Personnel, scientific instruments, and delicate apparatus were flown in by ski-equipped light planes; the glacier surface made an excellent landing field.