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A roadway on Eninman Island (part of the Marshall Islands) photographed by Alan C. Jones during a break from the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). 1952

Palau, Leg 4 Indopac

Queensland Plateau Core - Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 21 cruise co-chief scientists Dr. James E. Andrews, right, of the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, and Dr. Robert E. burns, center of the Joint Oceanographic Research Group, University of Washington (Seattle), join Cruise Operations Manager Theodore C. (Ted) Bangs, of the Union Oil Company, Sante Fe Springs, California, whi is on loan to DSDP, to inspect a sedimentary core ofdeep sea ooze taken at site 209 on the Queensland Plateau, which is located Northeast of Australia. Water depth at the site was 4,593 feet. A portion of the drilling derrick aboard D/V Glomar Challenger is in the background. Scientists and drillers recovered 4,556 feet of core material during leg 21 which was from Suva, Fiji to Darwin, Alaska. Photo by Orrin Russie

Loading explosives into [Taiwanese research vessel] Chiu Lien, Guam

Floating drydock, Guam

Pilot boat "Nogales," Apra harbor, Guam

DEEP SEA BASALT-Cruise Co-Chief Scientists Drs. Tjeerd H. van Andel, center, and G. Ross Heath, right, both from Oregon State University, examine a section of late Cretaceous basalt recovered at Site 163 - 600 miles Southeast of Hawaii - on Leg Sixteeen of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Cruise Operations Manager Dell Redding, of Phillips Petroleum Company, left, stands infront of a new three-cone "button bit" and a similar bit which was completely worn out after drilling through 164 feet of cherty sediments and 25 feet of basalt. Water depth at the site was 17,455 feet. Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California at San Diego, is managing institution for the Deep Sea Drilling Project under contract to the National Science Foundation

Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, while taking a break during the Midpac Expedition, 1950

A tsunami wave breaking over Pier 1 on the Big Island of Hawaii, in Hilo. April 1, 1946

During the Swan Song Expedition (1961) a member of the crew took this photo of a Nansen bottle racks and a Russian technician aboard the Russian R/V Vitiaz (ship) in Honolulu harbor, Hawaii. September 1961

During a break from the Swan Song Expedition (1961) a member of the crew took this photo of Waikiki beach from their hotel room; Diamond Head can be seen in background. September 1961

Donald M. Hussong of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, who served as the cruise Co-Chief Scientist, is studying a core sample taken aboard the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) during Leg 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 1978