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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying the Antarctic | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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