UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Aerial view of Kawela Bay, Oahu, Hawaii after a tsunami hit this part of the island. Arrow on the photograph is where Francis Parker Shepard a geologist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography was when the waves hit this area. April 1946

Francis Parker Shepard, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, inspecting the damage to a house and scarp formation, at Kainalu, Molokai, after a tsunami. A scarp formation is displacement of the land surface by movement along the fault of an earthquake line and mass wasting caused by water runoff. April 1946

The Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From left to right are Philip F. Rehbock, professor of history at the University of Hawaii; Deborah Day, archivist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and Keith Benson, a professor of history from the University of Washington. July 1993

A view of people enjoying the water sports in Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu Hawaii. This photo was taken by a member of the scientific party while taking a break during the Midpac Expedition (1950). 1950

South Pacific Ocean : New Hebrides Islands : Espiritu Santo Island : Pekoa (Segond) Channel and Wawa (Bruat) Channel

Preliminary chart : South Pacific Ocean : Solomon Islands : Florida Island-south coast : Tulagi Harbor to Baranago Harbor

South Pacific Ocean : New Caledonia-south coast : western approach to Port Noumea

River Scene, Viti Levu, Fiji

Fiji Islands inter-island service routes map

South Pacific Ocean : Solomon Islands : Guadalcanal and Florida Is. With a portion of Malaita I

South Pacific Ocean : Solomon Islands : Florida Island : Sandfly Passage (Ta Na Vula)

Henry William Menard and Edward Crisp Bullard at Suva, cocktail party during Nova Expedition, in Suva, Fiji. July 4, 1967