Senator Henry M. Jackson and Lt. Col. William J. Gammon, of Tacoma, posing with a Washington (State) flag next to a nine-ton tractor that will be air dropped to the South Pole Station, October 20, 1959

• Main Author: United States. Navy
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Legislators > United States; Military officers > American > Antarctica; State flags; Jackson; Henry M. (Henry Martin); 1912-1983; Gammon; William J; McMurdo Sound; South Pole; Byrd; Scott Base; Hallett; Byrd Station; Hallett Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/jackson/id/520

Senator Henry M. Jackson spent a week in Antarctica in October 1959 as part of Operation Deep Freeze 60, which was a support program for U.S. scientific research efforts. The program was responsible for bringing in and dropping supplies to Byrd Station, Hallett Station, McMurdo Sound and South Pole...