Word: antarctica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...
...exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last year Eielson flew Sir Hubert from Deception Island over a section of Antarctica (TIME, Dec. 31). This winter he was to fly over the South Pole, but preferred to organize Alaska Airways Corp. for The Aviation Corp.* Last month Eielson flew to the rescue of two icebound fur ships. One trip was made successfully (TIME, Nov. 25). On the next trip he disappeared...
...15?Start of Sir Hubert Wilkins' expedition to Antarctica...
...However, there are some general fields in which we may find that Byrd has made great advances. For instance, we know almost nothing of the climatic conditions in Antarctica, since previous expeditions have remained there for only short periods. Another field in which we are in almost complete ignorance is the nature of the surface features of the continent...
...There are only three large regions in the world which are unexplored so far; Antarctica, the Polar Sea region, and portions of the Sahara desert. Of these Antarctica is the largest by far, and it is also the least known...