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Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard Evelyn Byrd ...  His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of ..... have attempted what he accomplished several times, to winter over in Antarctica, ..... but it's a true story and it takes place on Earth at the south pole in 1934.
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Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard E. Byrd, Richard E ...  Feb 15, 2003 ... South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for ... expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having ... His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the ... For the original plan had been to staff the base with several men;...
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Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure: Richard E. Byrd ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. This reissue of Byrd's account of a grueling ... Little America, Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic the Flight to the South Pole ... In this 1938 volume, the great explorer recounts four months he spent alone gathering scientific .... The expedition took place from March - August of 1934.
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given ..... On his second expedition in 1934, Byrd spent five winter months alone operating a...
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Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure: Richard E. Byrd ... - Amazon.ca  His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the .... when he was, by choice, stranded "Alone" near the South Pole in 1934. .... Byrd was in an incredible location but there are many many more interesting...
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Lincoln Ellsworth - Wikipedia  Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880  May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States ... Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in the airship Norge, designed and ... In 1928, Ellsworth was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal that honored both his 1925 and 1926 polar flights.
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Antarctic Explorers: Paul A. Siple - South-Pole.com  However, when class opened in the fall of 1928, Paul Siple was earning his sea-legs ... On several of these occasions, he and Admiral Byrd lectured together. ... the opportunity for a Boy Scout to accompany the First Byrd Antarctic Expedition. ... for his first Antarctic expedition, asked the men who were to go along to agree to...
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Jeopary Questions page 1219 - BOGIE MEN - TriviaBistro.com  POLAR EXPLORATION: This South Pole conqueror died trying to rescue Umberto Nobile, who eventually lived to be 93  "NEVER" AT THE MOVIES: Despite the...
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Antarctic Explorers: Lincoln Ellsworth - South-Pole.com  Lincoln Ellsworth was born into a prominent religious family in Chicago, Illinois ... I knew that if I could cross that ice-locked continent I was bound to discover new territory. ... With four stops along the route, the flight covered 2200 miles with an elapsed ... In December 1928, Byrd led an expedition to the Antarctic, setting up a...
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton facts, information, pictures ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton at ... The Nimrod, a small whaler, reached the Ross Shelf Ice in January 1908. ... in the ice, Shackleton led heroic sledge and boat parties first to Elephant Island (reached April ... Books dealing with his polar exploits include Frank Wild, Shackleton's Last...
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Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition | HistoryNet  The 1925 expedition to fly over the North Pole was led by renowned ... The Dorniers, simply named N24 and N25 after Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1924. ... 'Hobby had already given up trying to be a boat,' Amundsen wrote later.
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Robert Falcon Scott - the journey to the South Pole - Cool Antarctica  Scott and his men were effectively on a starvation diet that didn't fulfill their needs ... Scott's Polar party at Amundsen's tent and marker flag, January 18th 1912, ... left behind as a depot, leaving the remainder of the travelling to manhauling. ... on the 23rd of January "Wilson suddenly discovered Evans nose was frostbitten - it...
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Amundsen's South Pole feat remembered 100 years on - The San ...  Dec 14, 2011 ... Norway's prime minister, polar adventurers and scientists have gathered at ... explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first to reach the South Pole. ... the South Pole on skis late Wednesday, the Norwegian Polar Institute said.
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Lincoln Ellsworth - Ohio History Central  As an adult, Ellsworth became an explorer, focusing his energies on the North and South Poles. In 1925, Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, ... The men continued across the North Pole, and eventually they landed in ... Between 1933 and 1939, he made four separate trips to this continent.
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Antarctic Explorers: James Clark Ross - South-Pole.com  James Clark Ross, born in 1800, entered the Navy at 11 years of age. ... In 1818 he joined his uncle on a controversial voyage in search of the ... For two months EREBUS and TERROR stayed at les Kerguelen where a ... Ross named it Mount Erebus and the smaller extinct volcano to the east, .... The Loneliest Continent.
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Antarctic History - Antarctica Online  Soon they had discovered the South Orkney Islands, but since there were no fur seals to ... On February 20, at longitude 3416'45"W, James Weddell fixed his position at 7415'S ... Their searches for the magnetic pole had been secondary. ... During the same 1892-93 austral summer, a Norwegian whaling expedition under...
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Jan. 18, 1912 | Robert Falcon Scott Discovers Tent of Explorer Who ...  Jan 18, 2012 ... On Jan. 18, 1912, one day after reaching the South Pole, the English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition found a tent erected by Roald Amundsen's expedition, ... Left to right: Lawrence Oates, Henry Bowers, Scott, Edward Wilson, ... Should he not return home safely, Amundsen wanted someone to...
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Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions - Wikipedia  Both Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole within a month of each ... Fatalities: Scott lost five men including himself returning from the Pole, out of a team of 65. .... Antarctic and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Amundsen in the Gja North West passage expedition, Fridtjof Nansen's...
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Charles Lindbergh - New World Encyclopedia  Feb 29, 2016 ... Known as "The Lone Eagle," his brave sojourn across the lonely Atlantic Ocean, .... Hauptmann, who maintained his innocence until the end, was found guilty and ... Lindbergh's subsequent combat missions as a civilian consultant and ... After World War II he and his family lived in Connecticut, while also...
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Amundsen Becomes First to Reach South Pole, December 14, 1911 ...  Amundsen Becomes First to Reach South Pole, December 14, 1911 ... No doubt the spur of competition played its part in unfolding the secrets of the last ... No less than four other expeditions were in the Antarctic regions at the time while ... At one or two points along this coast line, the French expedition under D'Urville,...
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Antarctic Time Line of Discovery - South-Pole.com  1840: In January, Lt. Charles Wilkes, American leader of the United States ... They build huts and become the first to winter over on the continent. ... It was during this expedition that the first major sledge journey in Antarctica took ... Letters are left for Scott, a Norwegian flag planted and then they return to the Bay of Whales.