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Remants of the local bowling alley called the Bowling Palace, after a tsunami hit Hilo, Hawaii, on the Big Island. April 4, 1946

Microbiologist Richard Y. Morita who served on the MidPac Expedition (1950), took this photo of a view overlook stop in, Hawaii, Honolulu, during a break from the expedition. 1950

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

[Necker Island]

During the Swan Song Expedition (1961) a member of the crew took this photo of the ferryboat "California" taking members to the dock in Honolulu, Hawaii, from the R/V Argo. 1961

Left to right: Jerry Carter, a graduate student, and scientists Grant Blackinton and Donald Hussong all from the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics. They are preparing the fordescent instrument which is closing on the drill string on the deck of the D/V Glomar Challenger during OBSS Experiment on Leg 67 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 1979

Beach on Viti Levu

Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Edward Crisp Bullard (middle, wearing suit), Lautoka. Nova Expedition, July 1967

Cricket Game, 1953

H. William Menard and Mrs. Block at the Grand Pacific Hotel cocktail party, Fiji