Word: balchen
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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Last week, in the two-year story of Commander Richard Byrd in Antarctica, came his successful flight to inspect some 10,000 square miles of Antarctica in a Fairchild monoplane with Pilot Bernt Balchen. They saw some mountain peaks no one had seen before and decided to name them for John D. Rockefeller Jr., one of the heavy contributors to the expedition's fund...