Donald Finkel’s United States Navy “Penguin Airlines” certification card for Operation Deep Freeze December 22, 1969

Donald Finkel’s United States Navy “Penguin Airlines” certification card for Operation Deep Freeze December 22, 1969

Finkel, Donald, 1929-2008

Donald Finkel’s United States Navy “Penguin Airlines” certification card for Operation Deep Freeze December 22, 1969. 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).

United States Navy

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

1969: December 22

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

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