Word: snowfields
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Antarctica is about the size of Europe and the U.S. put together, and most of it has never been seen by the human eye. Most, but not all of it is covered with level, monotonous névé (permanent snowfield feeding the continent's icecap). In many places, great peaks stick up through the ice, as bare and forbidding as mountains on the moon. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the expedition's commander, thinks there may be ranges 15,000 ft. high...