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Some People Think Antarctica Is Being Hidden From The World. Did Admiral Byrd Discover Something There During Operation Highjump?

American Navy Admiral Richard E. Byrd helped explore Antarctica during Operation Highjump — but there are many misconceptions ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Century Ago, an Explorer and His Pilot Claimed to Be the First People to Fly Over the North Pole. Here’s Why Experts Doubt That Achievement

While the success of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett’s polar flight has been disputed, the former went on to accomplish ...
insider.si.edu

Little America aerial exploration in the Antarctic, the flight to the South Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd, with 74 illustrations and maps

NPG copy 39088008417768 is not first edition. NPG copy 39088008417768 includes National Geographic Society map (folded) of "The Antarctic regions" dated c1932, inserted. Contents Notes from a journal ...
Yahoo

Deseret News archives: Adm. Richard Byrd set sail for Antarctica in 1928

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Aug. 25, 1928, announcing the start of Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica.
Oregonian

The Sand Creek Massacre; first airplane flight over the South Pole: Today in history, Nov. 29

On Nov. 29, 1864, a Colorado militia launched an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribal members, killing an estimated 230 people. Also on this date: In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr.