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Some People Think Antarctica Is Being Hidden From The World. Did Admiral Byrd Discover Something There During Operation Highjump?

American Navy Admiral Richard E. Byrd helped explore Antarctica during Operation Highjump — but there are many misconceptions ...
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North Dakota native led Antarctic programs after Byrd's death

The man in charge of the U.S. Antarctic Programs after the death of Adm. Richard Byrd in 1957 was born and raised in North Dakota. Richard Black accompanied Byrd on three Antarctic expeditions and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Century Ago, an Explorer and His Pilot Claimed to Be the First People to Fly Over the North Pole. Here’s Why Experts Doubt That Achievement

While the success of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett’s polar flight has been disputed, the former went on to accomplish ...
Yahoo

Deseret News archives: Adm. Richard Byrd set sail for Antarctica in 1928

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 25, 1928, announcing the start of Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.
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Little America aerial exploration in the Antarctic, the flight to the South Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd, with 74 illustrations and maps

NPG copy 39088008417768 is not first edition. NPG copy 39088008417768 includes National Geographic Society map (folded) of "The Antarctic regions" dated c1932, inserted. Contents Notes from a journal ...
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Assault on eternity : Richard E. Byrd and the exploration of Antarctica, 1946-47 / by Lisle A. Rose ; photos. selected by Richard R. Conger

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!287733~!0#focus ...
Time

FOREIGN RELATIONS: Peace in the Antarctic

Antarctica may be a frozen, windswept wasteland, but last week it became the first piece of territory which the U.S. and Russia agreed to make a military and nuclear no man’s land. Not much in the ...