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The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), often referred to as Byrd's Third Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition jointly sponsored by the United States Navy, State Department, Department of the Interior and The Treasury. Although a U.S.-government sponsored expedition, additional support came from donations and gifts by ...
1991 – Serap Z. Tilav, a US Antarctic Program field team member, became the first Turkish woman at the South Pole. [17] 1991–1992 – 36th Soviet Antarctic Expedition – led by Lev Savatyugin; 1992–1993 – American Women's Antarctic Expedition- AWE.
The U.S. Navy already had a record of earlier exploration in Antarctica. As early as 1839, Captain Charles Wilkes led the first U.S. Naval expedition into Antarctic waters. In 1929, Admiral Richard E. Byrd established a naval base at Little America I, led an expedition to explore further inland, and conducted the first flight over the South Pole.
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition; Second German Antarctic Expedition; Shackleton–Rowett Expedition; List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922; South Polar Times; South Pole–Queen Maud Land Traverse; Southern Cross Expedition; Southern Ocean Expedition; Swedish Antarctic Expedition
Gibbs was encouraged to apply for an assignment with the United States Antarctic Service. [2] The U.S. Congress established the service to support Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's third polar expedition (1939–1941) intended "to consolidate previous American exploration and to examine more closely the land in the Pacific sector."
Gilmour was the administrative assistant to the expedition commander, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, and was the official recorder and historian for the expedition.Gilmour made a daily official journal of all events, from the day they set sail on the USMS North Star on November 21, 1939, from the Navy Yard Pier 41 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the day they returned in 1941.
Dr. Harrison Holt Richardson (June 16, 1919 – July 17, 1999) was the youngest member of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's United States Antarctic Service Expedition from 1939 to 1941. As part of the expedition, Richardson was the first person to record color movie footage of Antarctica .
The United States Antarctic Program ... a U.S. Navy lieutenant who commanded an expedition in 1839–40 that was the first to prove the existence of the continent ...