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... mountains arranged in a crescent and rising to 600 meters , inland of the coast first seen by Robert Falcon Scott in 1902 . These he named for John D. Rockefeller , Jr. , one of the expedi- tion's sponsors . On 18 February , two further ...
... mountains arranged in a crescent and rising to 600 meters , inland of the coast first seen by Robert Falcon Scott in 1902 . These he named for John D. Rockefeller , Jr. , one of the expedi- tion's sponsors . On 18 February , two further ...
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... mountains , Byrd and Balchen noted that the adjacent , rather broader Liv Glacier looked more promising . With fuel insufficient for a second choice , Byrd took the risk , hoping that there would be no mountains beyond the glacier ...
... mountains , Byrd and Balchen noted that the adjacent , rather broader Liv Glacier looked more promising . With fuel insufficient for a second choice , Byrd took the risk , hoping that there would be no mountains beyond the glacier ...
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... mountains , with their way across the first 200 miles made con- siderably easier along the trail already pioneered by the sup- porting party . The only area of real difficulty was a belt of heavy crevassing between 81 ° and 82 ° S ...
... mountains , with their way across the first 200 miles made con- siderably easier along the trail already pioneered by the sup- porting party . The only area of real difficulty was a belt of heavy crevassing between 81 ° and 82 ° S ...
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Amundsen Antarctic expedition Antarctic Exploration Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Arctic Ocean attempt August Baffin Island Barents Barrow Beechey Bellingshausen Bering Strait Bernier Biscoe Borchgrevink Bouvet Bouvet Island British Bylot Byrd Cabot Cape Captain Charcot claim Cook crew Davis days later Deception Island discovered discovery dogs East Greenland Edward Ellesmere Island Ellsworth Enderby established expedition's farther north February flight Franklin Franz Josef Land Frobisher further reading Geographical George Gerlache Greenland Ice Shelf Inuit James Clark January John journey King Larsen Located London meters miles mountains named Nansen navigator Nordenskjöld North Pole Northeast northern Northwest Passage Norway Norwegian Parry party Peary polar exploration reached References and further region River Roald Russian sailed scientific Scott sealer seals Shackleton ship sledging Sound South Pole South Shetland Islands southern Spitsbergen station survey Svalbard tion vessel Victoria Land visited voyage Weddell Sea west coast whaling William winter Zemlya