USA. Ships: Eastwind, Edisto, Glacier, Arneb, Greenville Victory & Wyandot; additional ones during Deep Freeze II. Bases: Little America V & McMurdo. Deep Freeze code name for all subsequent US ope...
Truly internatonal in composition. Ship: Norsel. Base: Maudheim. Land traverses & aerial photography of 38,000 square miles of Queen Maud Land.
Ships: Burton Island & Edisto. Aircraft: 3 helicopters, 1 sea plane. Object: To train personnel & equipment; to survey 30 major features. Established 17 geodetic positions. Visited huts at Hut Poin...
Ships: 13. Aircraft: 33. Base: Little America IV. 4700 men. Larger than all past expeditions put together. First use of helicopters & icebreakers. Byrd flew over South Pole Feb 15, 1947. 350,000 sq...
Ships: North Star & Bear. Bases: Little America III & East Base. First US expedition since Wilkes and largest expedition to date. 4 major flights over Marie Byrd Land. East Base set up at Stoningto...
Ship: Schwabenland. Aircraft: Boreas & Passat. Aircraft launched by catapault from ship. Dropped aluminum darts with swastikas to claim territory, mostly in Queen Maud Land.
Ships: Thorshavn & Firern. Charted Dronning Maud Land. Photographed coastline between West Ice Shelf, Wilhelm II Land, and Proclamation Is.
Run out of fuel 16 miles from Little America II.
Ship: Wyatt Earp. Aircraft: Polar Star. Ellsworth & Hollick-Kenyon fly across Peninsula from Dundee Is to near Little America II, leaving Nov 12, 1935. 2300 miles in 6 stages. Run out of fuel 16 m...
USA. Ship: Wyatt Earp. Aircraft: Polar Star. Expedition abandoned. coast of Trinity Peninsula from Snow Hill Is to Nordenskjold Coast. Short flight made along east
USA. Ship: Wyatt Earp. Aircraft: Polar Star. Object: Fly across continent. Polar Star damaged and expedition abandoned. Polar Star shipped back to US for repairs. Included Balchen & Wilkins.
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