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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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