Word: antarctica
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd worried in Antarctica last week. The work of his two-year expedition had gone as far as practicable. He had made several successful exploratory flights. Dr. Laurence McKinley Gould was back, hairy and dirty, from his 1,500-mi. geological trip to the Queen Maude Range. The Byrd ships, City of New York and Eleanor Boiling, were on the way from Dunedin, N. Z., to pick up the 42 men of his party, their records, rock specimens and equipment. The men were fretting for a change of society. Several were...
...Comparable to him in Arctic experience and flying skill, but not in navigation, are Bernt Balchen, Commander Byrd's chief pilot in Antarctica and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, both Norwegians. Last week Riiser-Larsen flew from the whaling ship Norvegia in Antarctic waters and took possession of newly discovered land for Norway across the polar continent from Byrd's quarters...
...them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some money." He said: "This exploring life is fascinating. But you can't live on glory when you get old." Managing Alaskan Airways was the opportunity...