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Thank you to Quark Expeditions for making my dream of not only stepping on my seventh continent but also hula-hooping there ...
The evening sun dimmed over Admiral Byrd’s Little America camp a day last week. Most of the expedition’s 42 men ... him on his surveys of 150,000 Antarctic square miles.* ...
recommended the staunch old ship to Admiral Byrd for the long voyage southward to the Rose. Barrior, where Little America, the base camp of the Antarctic Expedition, was later to be located.
A & S: Admiral Richard Byrd, who led the Highjump expedition, had 13 ships, 23 aircraft, and 4,700 men. Quite a contingent. Belanger: It was the largest naval expedition ever in Antarctica.
Norman Vaughan, dogsled driver and member of Byrd's Antarctica ... The expedition wouldn't have been successful. It would not have been able to establish a camp. The dogs were a key to Admiral ...
National Geographic photographer Michaela Skovranova captures an Antarctic ... other diving bird. Photograph by Michaela Skovranova This indifference to the presence of the expedition team wasn ...
The Admiral Vladimirsky ship left northwest Russia’s Kronshtadt for the Antarctic expedition in November 2015 and is expected to return there this April. The details of all the stages of the ...
The Admiral Vladimirsky ship left northwest Russia’s Kronshtadt for the Antarctic expedition in November 2015. Ukrainian air defenses’ incompetent actions behind civilian deaths in Krivoy Rog ...
The project comes under the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, an organization that three years ago made world headlines when it found the Scharnhorst, the flagship of Admiral Graf von Spee that ...