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R/V Spencer F. Baird (Ship), moored at a dock in American Samoa located in the South Pacific Ocean, during the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). January 1953

Traditional Samoan thatch hut \"fales\" in Pago Pago, the capital town of American Samoa. It is actually a village that is often mistaken to be a city (as in a capital or port city) of this south Pacific territory of the United States of America. The village is located on Pago Pago Harbor, in the island of Tutuila. Circa 1967

R/V Horizon in Pago Pago harbor, as photographed by a member of the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953) during a stopover in American Samoa. January 1953

Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa

Other ships in port, photo from the deck of the R/V Argo (ship) while stationed in port in the Pago Pago Harbor. Pago Pago is the capital town of American Samoa. It is actually a village that is often mistaken to be a city (as in a capital or port city) of this south Pacific territory of the United States of America. The village is located on Pago Pago Harbor, in the island of Tutuila. Circa 1967

Principal electronics technician David Havens turns the wheel which adjusts vertical angle on the new satellite weather antenna, state of the art antenna for its time, installed aboard D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) during the port call at Agana, Guam, between Legs 59 and 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The big wheel at the bottom takes care of the horizontal angle. Shipboard data tables are provided for the required horizontal and vertical antenna angles. Information is received from a satellite in stationary orbit and processed by shipboard equipment to produce a weather map which enables the captain, scientists and operations personnel to get weather forecasts 18 hours in advance at any drilling and coring site. 1978

Scientist Seiya Uyeda, right, of the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, and Co-Chief Scientist on Leg 60 of Deep Sea Drilling Project with colleague and oceanographer Timothy J.G. Francis, of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Blacknest, Brimpton, Reading, England. They are conducting thermal conductivity measurements of a core recovered north of Guam near the Mariana Trench. The equipment they are using measures the dissipation of heat in the core material. 1978

A view from the Bridge - Captain Joe Clarke, one of the D/V Glomar challenger's two skippers, looks forward from the bridge as the drilling vessel leaves the harbor at Guam to begin Leg 61 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project

Loading explosives into [Taiwanese research vessel] Chiu Lien, Guam. Dr. Lu on van

Flying fish, off Babelthuap Is., Palau

Guam, Indopac Leg 10

Radiolarian Skeleton - A sample of nonnofossil chalk ooze from Site 64 on Leg 7 of the deep Sea Drilling Project-Guam to Honolulu-shows a Radiolarian skeleton (large perforated sphere) surrounded by Coccoliths (small circular objects in matrix) and calcareous debris. The micrograph was made on a scanning electron microscope and was magnified 600 times. The sample was late Miocene in age and was taken from about 656 ft. (200 M) below the Pacific Ocean floor