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...Cartographers divide the South Polar regions into Pacific, Australian, African and American Quadrants. The Pacific Quadrant is between the 90th and 180th lines of west longitude...
Commander Byrd himself wrote the account of this flight, making it as exciting and important as he modestly and scientifically could. But after all the polar flights that there have been and in view of the highly technical, if not nebulous, value of the Byrd observations, the aerial discovery of the Rockefeller Jr. Mountains, Cook Tennant's Peak and Hal Flood Bay did not make a sensational newspaper story. Pure science is seldom sensational, and Commander Byrd's report clung to the phrase: "Another river crossed...
...racing is a necessity, not a sport, in Polar regions or across the drifting ice of Norton Sound in Alaska where Seppalla became famous for his five and a half day mush to Nome in 1925 with diphtheria serum, beating the record run for 655 miles by three and a half days. Balto, whom Gunnar Kasson drove on the race to Nome, also dragged Roald Amundsen north when he planned his polar flight...
Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...
Commander Byrd's aim is to explore the South Polar continent. It contains 5,000,000 square miles; is covered, except for its margins during its summer, with thick ice. There may be a water channel all the way across it, joining the Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole...