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Who owns Antarctica and the Byrd flight history
The article traces the 1929 Byrd South Pole flight and claims to Antarctica by discovery and exploration. It surveys British and American claims, Wilkes’s 1840 discovery, Ross, Mawson, and Amundsen, plus other nations Russia France Norway and Argentina, framing a complex sovereignty dispute over mineral wealth and territorial rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kk. Byrd
United States
South Pole
North
South Poles
Antarctica
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Commaander Byrd
State Department
Byrd
Australia
Department
Singland
Ross Dependency
Falkland Island
James Cook
Hawaiian Islands
Antarctic Circle
Isle of Georgia
George II
Sandwich Land
Fourth Earl of Sandwich
Admiralty
James Weddell
Royal Navy
Enderby
London
James Briscoe
Kemp Land
John Balleny
Balleny
Congress
Lieut
Charles Wilkes
United States Navy
Vincennes
Peacock
Relief
Porpoise
Hampton Roads
Polar
Antarctic
Wilkes
Sydney
Macquarie Island
South Pacific
South America
Piner's Bay
Wilkes Land
James Clark Ross
Lie
Victoria Land
Ross Sea
Hobart Town
Ross
Osteen Pagea
Erebus
Terror
Lord Melbourne
Possession Island
Queen Victoria
Stoss
Great Britain
Nares
Borehgrevink
Bruce
Scott
Shackleton
Douglas Mawson
W. S. Bruce
Russia
Alexander I
Fabian von Bellinghausen
Traverse Islands
Cape Adare
Roald Amundsen
Argentina
Falkland Archipelago
Elands