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What did school children think about Richard Byrd and his expeditions to Antarctica?
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What did school children think about Byrd's Antarctic expedition?
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Expeditions: Antarctica, 1969-1970, Lois M. Jones Papers, The Ohio State University, Byrd Center Archival Program.
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Who was the “ghostwriter” for the Byrd Second Antarctic Expedition?
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Find out how you become the first milkman in Antarctica!
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How do you become the first milkman in Antarctica?
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Admiral Byrd's Little America board game box.
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Who Wanted to Play a Board Game About Antarctic Expeditions?
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Fine out where the Third Pole is located?
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Where is the Third Pole?
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How did the first all-woman scientific team from the United States come to work in Antarctica?
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How did the first all-woman scientific team from the United States come to work in Antarctica?
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Who was the first to fly a plane over the North Pole?
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Who was the first to fly a plane over the North Pole?
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Board of Trustees, IPS, 1961
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How did a polar center come to be located in Ohio?
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Antarctic stowaway, Billy Gawronski.
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How an Author Used the Polar Archives in Ohio to Write about an Antarctic Stowaway?

Featured

  • News
  • Symposia
    • NT4OP
    • 2019 | Climate Change Research at Ohio State
      • Overview
      • Poster Abstracts
      • Speaker Session Videos
    • 2019 | Women in Antarctica
      • Overview
      • Speakers
        • Mary R. Albert
        • Rosie Askin
        • Jessie L. Crain
        • Melisa A. Diaz
        • Kelly Falkner
        • Jill Ferris
        • Gretchen Hofmann
        • Liz Kauffman
        • Carol Landis
        • Amy Leventer
        • Lindsey McIntosh-Lin
        • Eileen R. McSaveney
        • Ellen Mosley-Thompson
        • Julie Mueller
        • Julie Palais
        • Claire Parkinson
        • Marilyn Raphael
        • Morgan Seag
        • Amelia Shevenell
        • Terry Tickhill Terrell
        • Pamela Theodotou
        • Karen R Tupek
        • Kathy Welch
        • Terry Wilson
      • Videos
    • 2020 | Climate Change Research at Ohio State
      • Videos
    • 2021 | Climate Change Research at Ohio State
  • Use Our Science
    • ArcticDEM | Arctic Elevation Change
    • FARM | Field Application Resource Monitor
    • FEVer | Fluid Earth Viewer
    • GRRATS | Global River Radar Altimetry Time Series
    • HYDRO | Ohio Hydrologic and Climate Assessment
    • REMA | Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica
  • Live Weather and Roof-top Camera
  • History Corner
    • Antarctic Board Game
    • Antarctic Stowaway
    • Byrd expedition ghostwriter
    • First all-woman team in Antarctica
    • First flight over North Pole
    • First milkman in Antarctica
    • Polar Archives & WWI
    • Polar Center in Ohio
    • Where is the Third Pole
    • Windiest Desert on Earth
  • Opportunities for Students
    • Course Offerings
    • Inaugural Climathon
    • Solve Climate by 2030

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