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11 de jul. de 2024 · In May 1926 American Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett flew north from Spitsbergen and claimed to have reached the pole before turning back; their claim was cast into doubt after Byrd’s diary was discovered in the mid-1990s.
Há 5 dias · In December 1927, Navy Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd Jr. articulated the significance of his prospective scientific expedition to Antarctica: “Man cannot claim mastery of the globe until he conquers the Antarctic continent. It is the last great challenge…down there lies the greatest adventure left in exploring and aviation.”
Há 4 dias · Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of 1,610,000 km 2 (620,000 sq mi), it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th century.
Richard Byrd, U.S. Navy (1888-1957) — An Arctic explorer and naval aviator, Byrd was the first person to fly over both poles of the Earth. On May 9, 1926, in a Fokker Tri-motor piloted by Floyd Bennett, he traversed the North Pole in a 16-hour flight over 1,545 miles.
Há 3 dias · An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit , they were traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of Greenland .
19 de jul. de 2024 · The Atlantic Ocean was first crossed non-stop by John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919, a mere sixteen years after the Wright Brothers first took flight at Kitty Hawk. Others would follow Alcock...
29 de jun. de 2024 · Commander Richard E. Byrd’s huge tri-motored plane, The America, is seen in the water off Ver Sur Mer, France, in June 1927, where he crash landed after flying through three storms on a...
