Collection Name	AMRC. Wien Collection
Identifier	AMRC-b85-27-960
Title	Tourist standing on a giant ice cake on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow.
Description	View of tourist on giant block of ice at Arctic Ocean, Point Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Giant ice cakes are thrust up in pressure ridges on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow. This photo shows a tourist by one of them. Many visitors this winter are enjoying this unusual experience on winter tours inaugurated by Wien Consolidated Airlines to Barrow where a few snowy steps take them off the top of the North American continent on to the frozen Arctic Sea. (Wien Consolidated Airlines -- Photo by Frank Whaley). On the arctic ice -- A winter visitor to Pt. Barrow walks out on an over-riding ice cake thrust up by the pressures of wind and ocean currents. -- Wien Consolidated Airlines photo by Frank Whaley." 1968-1969? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Creator	Whaley, Frank H.
Contributors	Wien Consolidated Airlines, Inc.
Subject.TGM	Tourists Men Tourism Icebergs
Corporate Name	Wien Consolidated Airlines, Inc.
Location	Barrow, Point (Alaska) Arctic Ocean
Region	Northern Alaska
Time Period	1959 and later
Date.original	1968-1969?
Type	Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	https://www.anchoragemuseum.org/collections/rights-and-reproduction/
Holding Institution	Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. 625 C Street Anchorage, AK 99501 mailto:resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org
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Tourist standing on a giant ice cake on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow.

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