Postcard depicting Operation Deep Freeze.

Postcard depicting Operation Deep Freeze.

Finkel, Donald, 1929-2008

Postcard depicting Operation Deep Freeze. Postcard shows map location of various stations in Antarctica and gives a brief description of the map. In 1969, Donald Finkel was the first poet to travel to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition sponsored by the National Science Foundation to send artists to Antarctica. Finkel’s experiences inspired two books, Adequate Earth (1972) and Endurance: An Antarctic Idyll (1978).

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Donald Finkel Papers (MSS045) - Finkel I, Box 21, Folder 164

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Series IX.2.b. Material toward Adequate Earth - Notes and Sources - Donald Finkel

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