Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation worried Admiral Byrd. If his ships could not reach him, he would be isolated for another dread year. Some of his men would surely die. Some would go mad. The survivors would be obliged to live on short rations. He must forestall that...
...rescue, if rescue be needed.* Company officials said that they would wait a fortnight, in hopes that the pack would open. To send their vessels against the pack now would break the ships and not the ice. If all else failed, they would wait until they could bring the Byrd group afoot over...
That the pack would open, that Admiral Byrd's worry was needless unexpectedly became a promise at the week's end. For the first time this season whales appeared at Little America, south of the pack. Some jigsaw passage they must have had. Admiral Byrd watched them frisking malodorously at the ice shelf, bunted one on the snout with a ski pole...
...further shows the ship and airplane routes of the four parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic Expedition (Sir Douglas Mawson's) at the Indian Ocean side; 4) Norwegian Whalers (Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen's and Lutzow Holm...
...Admiral Byrd, whose better equipped expedition did more thorough and extensive work, similarly named new localities?Marie Byrd Land (after his wife), Rockefeller Mts., Charles Bob Mts. His flight over the South Polar Plateau added very little more to the knowledge of the plateau itself than Amundsen and Scott, afoot, recorded the antarctic "summer" of 1911-12. However, he could see the real lay of the Queen Maude Range, of which the Charles Bob Mts. are an extension. Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, on a 1,500-mi. sledge and ski trip over the Ross Shelf ice to the foot...