During her second scientific explatory voyage under the Arctic ice, the U.S.S. Skate, a nuclear-powered submarine, became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole on March 17.

After six weeks' survival in the antarctic ice pack, the Belgian expedition ship Polarhav was rescued by a U.S. Navy icebreaker.

A digging machine tosses snow skyward during construction of Camp Century, a U.S. Army polar research center beneath the Greenland ice cap 800 miles south of the North Pole.

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