Tuck, John, Jr., 1933-1984
Biography
John Tuck Jr, was born in 1933. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1954 after which he went on active duty in the Navy's Civil Engineering Corps. He served aboard the icebreaker "Edisto" in the Arctic before volunteering for Antarctic duty. In 1957, he was among a group that became the first to reach the South Pole on foot since Scott in 1911-12. Mount Tuck in Antarctica was later named in his honor. After leaving the Navy, Tuck became a geography professor at the University of Wisconsin and later the University of Georgia.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Operation Deep Freeze color transparencies
The collection contains 140 Kodak stereo transparencies documenting the U.S. Navy's construction of the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station in 1955-1956, in preparation for the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. Also included are images of McMurdo Station, the South Pole and other Antarctic landscapes. The photographs were taken by John Tuck Jr.
"The Baffin Island Reindeer Experiment," manuscript
Typescript of John Tuck Jr.'s paper on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's plan to introduce reindeer onto Baffin Island during the 1920's. Appendix contains letters from representatives of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Dept. of Northern Affairs and National Resources.