Logo
Prev
Bookmark
Rotate
Print
Next
Contents
All Pages
Related Articles
Browse Issues
Help
Search
Home
'
National Geographic : 1947 Oct
Contents
Here Byrd turned back on his 1947 flight beyond the Pole from Little America. In this region the Polar Plateau,some 9,500 feet high, appearedlevel ouvet and featurelessto the extent of his vision. Ice- crystal mountains, luminously blue, tower more than 2 miles and extend 100 miles along this coast. Beyon the west c IceBR. r' Co En by Land rica s ru SKempCoa Thorshammer Island Mac- Robertson Cas found to be nonexistent. Larst C Christensen Co In aid Christensen Coas dCa American - = dthe mountains which line . a -n oast ofRoss Sea isagently I H land 9 -PAstrid Coast' rolling ice plateau averaging some Mt'f kl.ey .4oo9,000 feet. s Mt Kirkpatrick i4eoo South la ' QueenAlexandra Range eomagnetic Pole in S kham istoo .p Cape Wilson ,.Mt. Albert Markham o4o -.. Cape Mt. McClntock o1050 Several areas of bare rocks and Ice. M-urray itannia dry valleys were photographed in 80°- Britannia Rnge Brni R9a this region. SHab Mt; Hiarmsworth T e Mt.Erbu. '' . v 13200 k>l9 'e' tl SPrince Albert Mountains Eleva Ross rl Beaufo' 5 Admiral Cruzen foundScott's ° -- camp looking very much as if it Se.C \ . I .. had been deserted a few weeks Sbay contains little pack ;possibly one of Antarc iest naturalharbors. Promising area for ex ploration. Ice-free coast and fresh-water lakes. Good land inq beaches andcamp sites. n colored Coa aremiles,as tensively Quee aryoast S Shef Tce /.Knox oast l/ Glacier has sheer drop of 1,000 feet. ) 'Bud Coas -( 'Sabrina Coast '* o. tten Co st j anza oast SNorths Q. *Coast \ instead or 43 years. I ' L Glacier,possibly one of world's .. o South \ largest and extending far into Polar S, Magnetic Pole" l" Plateau,discovered here. Cape Adare\ e 9e Co4s Bay OatenJ , Coast C'Geo r( fN . o--- Rennick Bay found to extend Frefield ; Bay inland 100 miles. Both sides of Head . i aertz ~ Loose pack ice; easy access bay are lined by mountains with to coast with icebreaker. altitudes up to 8,000 feet. Aircraft compass deviations - Sturge Island indicated that Magnetic Pole may Balleny have moved to this vicinity. Islands - ?o "nd - f- - The three ships of the Western Group, S circleCapt. Charles A. Bond in command /' rendezvoused near the Balleny Islands. course of Western roup nb seaplane tender CURRITUCK. Drawn by Irvin E.Alleman\ nd Harry S. of snow. This snow is dry, with the texture of fine sand. Sturdy Icebreaker Runs Interference The Northwind, commanded by Capt. Charles W. Thomas of the Coast Guard, one of the best ice sailors living, led the way. Before the 10,000-horsepower punches of this 6,660-ton icebreaker, one of the three or four toughest ships in existence, the pack offered little resistance. Her slashing, crushing bow could push through ordinary three-foot ice smoothly at 10 knots, and one wall 30 feet thick was battered down in less than an hour. She could twist and turn in solid ice almost as easily as the other ships could maneuver in water. The difficulty was that the unprotected ships could not follow the sharp-curved, narrow lanes she cut; loosened ice chunks piled in front of them, and the yawning jaws of ice pried open by the Northwind threatened to close on them relentlessly with pressures of many thousands of tons. It soon became obvious that they might be in real danger of becoming crushed in the pack. All suffered dented hulls. Before the end of the first week the peril Edward VIII Bay much larger than previously charted.It hasa split glacier. Seaplane landed on unfrozer \ke. This area of some 300 squ cluding ice-free hills, was ext hotographedin color. absolutely featureless. tion 9,500 feet. Huge ice. It is i
Links
Archive
1947 Nov
1947 Sep
Navigation
Previous Page
Next Page