History Corner | Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

What was Byrd's infamous Antarctic Snow Cruiser doing in Gomer, Ohio?

Glass enclosed exhibit

How did people eat on polar expeditions?

What did school children think about Richard Byrd and his expeditions to Antarctica?

What did school children think about Byrd's Antarctic expedition?

Photo from sea of Antarctica

Who was the “ghostwriter” for the Byrd Second Antarctic Expedition?

Find out how you become the first milkman in Antarctica!

How do you become the first milkman in Antarctica?

Admiral Byrd's Little America board game box.

Who Wanted to Play a Board Game About Antarctic Expeditions?

Fine out where the Third Pole is located?

Where is the Third Pole?

How did the first all-woman scientific team from the United States come to work in Antarctica?

How did the first all-woman scientific team from the United States come to work in Antarctica?

Three people bundled in thick fur coats standing outside of a plane in the snow

Who was the first to fly a plane over the North Pole?

Antarctic stowaway, Billy Gawronski.

How an author used the Polar Archives in Ohio to write about an Antarctic stowaway

Trustees sitting around a table

How did a polar center come to be located in Ohio?

Soldiers from WW1

Why are there World War I photos in the Polar Archives?

Drifting snow practically covers building in Antarctica.

Where is the windiest desert on Earth?

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