U.S.S. Chilton Anchored off Bikini Atoll
ID: 91-6345
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1946
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222, Box 26, Folder 4
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The U.S.S. Chilton anchored off Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, to facilitate the Operation Crossroads biological survey of Bikini Atoll prior to testing the atomic bomb there. Leonard Peter Schultz, ichthyologist at the National Museum of Natural History, was among the scientists sent on the survey.
Subject
- Schultz, Leonard P (Leonard Peter) 1901-
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- United States Navy
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- Operation Crossroads was an expedition to Bikini Atoll and the northern Marshall islands under the auspices of the Department of the Navy. Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, was in charge of the biological investigation of the reef fishes in the area. His investigations centered on the relative abundance of fauna before and after the atom bomb tests. Specimens were collected for the purpose of comparison and to make possible a study of anatomical variations among the various island fish populations.
- See Neg. #s for Operation Crossroads 1946: 91-6345, SIA2010-0896, SIA2010-0897, SIA2010-0898, SIA2010-0899, SIA2010-0900, SIA2010-0901, SIA2010-0902, SIA2010-0903, SIA2010-0904, SIA2010-0905, SIA2010-0906, SIA2010-0907, SIA2010-0908, SIA2010-0922, SIA2010-0923, SIA2010-0973, SIA2010-0974
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222, Box 26, Folder 4
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1946
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Boats and boating
- Atomic Bomb Tests
- Ichthyology
- Employees
- U.S.S. Chilton (Ship)
- Nuclear weapons
- Landscapes
- Smithsonian Institution
- Personnel management
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Testing
- Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946/1947
- Nuclear weapons--Testing
- Ships
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
Place
- Marshall Islands
- Pacific Ocean
- Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Landscape
ID Number
91-6345
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 3h x 4.25w; Type of Image: Landscape; Medium: Photographic print