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Assault on Antarctica tops 1955 exploration roundup
The National Geographic Society ranks the Antarctic push as 1955’s top exploration story, detailing Operation Deep Freeze and the IGY plan to establish bases, led by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. It also highlights sky atlas advances, Stone Age finds, Greenland and Himalayan expeditions, and global archeology efforts shaping the era's science surge.
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Washington
Antarctica
National Geographic Society
Earth
Antarctic
Argentina
South Pole
Grahamland
Falkland Islands
Hope Bay
United States Navy
United States
IGY
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Tivoli
Italy
Vatican
Pontifical Archeological Commission
San Zotico
Ancona
Smithsonian Institution
la Venta
Mexico
Tabasco
Michigan
Cheboygan County
Peninsuar
Hazor
Israel
Vallatum
Manching
Bavaria
Munich
Firth River
Yukon Territory
Arctic Ocean
Siberia
Asia
Canada
Permment
Franklin
Ellesmere Island
Katmai
Alaska Peninsula
Univer
Alaska
Colville River
Washington Missionary College
Brazil
Amazon
John Libi
Mount
Ararat
Turkey
Charles Evans
Everest
Edmund Hillary
Makalu
Central Asia
Dhaulagiri
Frontier
Pakistan
Istoro Nal
Thomas Mutch
Joseph Murphy
Princeton University
Nepal
Ganesh Himal
Raymond Lambert
Annapurna 3
Maurice Herzog
University of Miami Marine Laboratory
Florida
Miami
the Society
Jacques - Yves Cousteau
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harold E. Edgerton
Cousteau
Mediterranean
Aldabra Island
Seychelles
Indian Ocean
Cornel! University
Carl W. Gartlein
Corne
Lee M. Talbot
International Union For the Protection of Nature
Thor Heyerdahl
Easter Island
Americas
South Pacific
South America
Lake Titicaca
America
Te Ince City
Escoma
Ilderness
Great Slave Lake