Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the primary purpose of the current Byrd and Rome expeditions is scientific, Professor Rice sees the southernmost continent as more than just a chunk of ice which can "tell us something about the structure of the earth...
After twelve days in the vast loneliness of the world's last no man's land, six survivors of a crashed Navy flying boat, all members of the Byrd Expedition, were rescued on the edge of ice-clad Antarctica. Three of the crew had died...
Sponsored by four private scientific societies, with some backing from the Navy, the expedition has no relation to the Byrd outfit which is already digging in the snowfields. Commander Finn Ronne, for whom the trip is named, will lead his group on their various scientific quests to Palmerland, an area of the Antarctic lying directly south of Cape Horn...
...last expedition (1935) Rear Admiral Richard Byrd recorded a temperature of -90° F., almost equaling Siberia's record. He believes that the air above the polar plateau may be found to fall below...
...human eye. Most, but not all of it is covered with level, monotonous névé (permanent snowfield feeding the continent's icecap). In many places, great peaks stick up through the ice, as bare and forbidding as mountains on the moon. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's commander, thinks there may be ranges 15,000 ft. high...