Case file · Declassified record
Byrd's flight over the South Pole
On 28–29 November 1929 Richard E. Byrd, with pilot Bernt Balchen, Harold June and photographer Ashley McKinley, flew the Ford Trimotor 'Floyd Bennett' from Little America to the South Pole and back in under 19 hours.
1929 CE · -90.00, 0.00 · status: official
The account
It was the first flight over the South Pole and made Byrd a national hero. His later Antarctic career, from Little America to Operation Highjump and Deep Freeze, gave hollow-earth writers a famous name to attach their claims to.
Connections in the atlas
- Byrd alone at Advance Base
- Byrd's 'land beyond the pole' quotes, claimed and documented
- Operation Highjump: myth and history
- Raymond Bernard's 'The Hollow Earth' and the Byrd myth