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Vol. 7, No. 25 Week of June 23, 2002
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Geologic field trip by boat: Good food, good stories, bad weather and bad geology highlight Phillips 1956 expedition

Geologist Hank Ornelas‚ shares his journal, letters and telegrams from a three month geological expedition in the Shumagin Island area of the Aleutians aboard the Eudora, a 104-foot air-sea rescue boat that had been converted to a yacht

Jen Ransom

PNA Staff Writer

Following are excerpts from the story of Phillips Petroleum geologist Hank Ornelas’ three-month excursion to Alaska in 1956, told in the form of letters and telegrams to his wife and children, Joyce, Pam and Rolf, and journal entries. Ornelas was selected to be the Phillips representative on the bo....

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Letter Ketchikan, Alaska June 1, 1956

Journal Entry Chignik, Alaska June 11, 1956

Letter Albatross Anchorage June 16, 1956

Journal Entry June 19, 1956


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