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Record #153889:

Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure / Dennis Rawlins.

Title: Byrd's heroic 1926 North Pole failure / Dennis Rawlins.
Author(s): Rawlins, Dennis.
Date: 2000.
In: Polar Record. (2000.), Vol. 36(196) (2000)
Abstract: Close examination of Byrd's diary - its writings, calculations and erasures - leads author to conclude that whilst Byrd and his co-pilot Floyd Bennett achieved farthest-north-seen and made heroic attempt to reach Pole, they never actually reached it.
Notes:

Polar Record. Vol. 36(196) :25-50 (2000).

Keywords: 656.7(091) -- History of aviation.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1926 Byrd.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*301) -- North Pole.
SPRI record no.: 153889

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