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What did Richard Byrd discover?
Richard Byrd discovered the geographic South Pole in 1929, making him one of the first people to reach this remote location. He also led expeditions that explored and mapped large portions of Antarctica, contributing valuable data to our understanding of the continent.
How many years in total did Richard E Byrd explore Antarctica?
Richard E. Byrd explored Antarctica for a total of five expeditions spanning from 1928 to 1956, covering a period of about 28 years.
Did harry flood byrd sr have any sister or brothers?
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What Antarctic base was established by by Richard E. Byrd?
US Navy Read Admiral Richard E Byrd established the first Little America base. Since that time, five more were established, and as of 2016, they have all flowed off the ice into the Southern Ocean because they were established on ice.
How many tons a day are the glaciers melting The History Channel said 100s of million of tons per day. Is that possible?
552 billion tons lost from the Greenland ice sheet in 2007.This is just ONE region. Not the entire globe. Some regions lose for a part of the season and others gain. Some of that ice presumably returns in the winter.An accurate estimate of ice loss would be critical to figuring how much heat is being absorbed by melting ice relative to the heat gained from solar radiation (the scientific models suggest 4 Watts per square meter of planet surface is enough to create a problem). So the very pertinent question is totally appropriate and an answer is essential for the Anthropogenic Global Warming models.A:The number of tons does not transmit the reality of the size and extension of the glaciers that are melting and gone. Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season has reached its lowest levels since the beginning of measurements in 1979, this was informed by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.The average amount of sea ice registered by satellite for the month of September was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles), the lowest in any September record, 23% less ice than in 200.There is not any considerable gain in sea ice or glaciers anywhere in the world according to official studies and the World Meteorological Organization. The decreasing amount of the ice caps is a cause of concern and is endangering the Arctic and Antarctic environments as well as the sea levels at global scale and the speeding of flooding and eventual destruction of low-lying islands and coastal areas.Jeffrey Kargel, a glacier expert at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, stated recently that "Receding and wasting glaciers are a chief telltale sign that global climate change is real and accelerating."The melt rate of the 160,000 glaciers on Earth, has accelerated dramatically since the mid-1990s. A measured glacier in the Peruvian Andes, Qori Kalis, lost as much ice in one week as it used to lose in one year, reported Lonnie Thompson, a geologist at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who in a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science added that "You can literally sit there and watch it retreat. As the Peruvian ice fields disappear, sources of irrigation and hydroelectric power will dry up."Glaciers are not only decreasing in area but also in thickness. In Alaska, glaciers are losing an average of 6 feet (1.8 meters) of thickness each year according to a report by Anthony Arendt, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He also predicted that at the present rate, by the middle of this century there will be almost no ice at the Rockies, the Cascades, and Glacier National Park.Studies based on thousands of aerial photographs and satellite imaging, show that on the past 50 years, 84% of Antarctic glaciers have retreated, said David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey at Cambridge in a report. The average retreat was 1,970 feet (600 meters) since 1953 but there are some glaciers as the Sjogren Glacier that retreated as much as 8 miles (13 kilometers) since 1993.A small number of glaciers that advanced on average 980 feet (300 meters) in the Antarctic peninsula in the last 50 years, are attributed to the newly created variations and compensation of temperature areas, and are considered as with no impact on the much larger scale and amplitude of the melting and receding glaciers, which is considered of great global impact.The above official and scientific studies and conclusions, refer to all glaciers, including glacier-ice shelves connected to the land-based glacier from which they flowed, as well as tidewater glaciers that rest on land and break off into the ocean.Experts in catastrophes and natural disasters have warned that not only the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic glaciers present a global menace but also the melting of glaciers in the Andes and the Himalayas, that feed the main rivers and water supply to large regions, can lead, once the glaciers are gone, to water shortage for hundreds of millions of people, a true global catastrophe.
How long after Richard Byrd did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole?
Hate to tell you this, but Richard Evelyn Byrd arrived at Antarctica some 17 years after Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole. Byrd's first expedition to the South Pole happened in 1928, Amundsen had beaten Scott to the Pole in 1911.
Who are the arctic explorers?
Throughout history, many people have explored the Arctic. Among the more famous are Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer. Richard E. Byrd, an American, also explored the Arctic. Henry Hudson, Matthew Henson, John Franklin, and Robert Peary also explored it.
What coast bordering the amundsen sea?
The coast that borders the Amundsen Sea is Terra Nova Bay, owned by France.
What country is Marie byrd land in?
A region of western Antarctica east of the Amundsen Sea. It was discovered and claimed for the United States by Richard E. Byrd in 1929.
What is the coast bordering the Amundsen sea?
Amundsen Sea borders the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The sea is named after the man who first reached the South Pole.
What is the the coast bordering the Amundsen sea?
Amundsen Sea borders the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The sea is named after the man who first reached the South Pole.
Who were three of the first explorers to look for Antarctica?
Roald Amundsen, Richard E, Byrd, and James Cook
Who were the first men to fly over the north pole?
Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett are credited with being the first men to fly over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. However, today experts believe that Roald Amundsen may have been the first to make a verifiable claim to this feat. Byrd was a naval officer who also explored Antarctica.
What continent contains Queen Maud Land Wilkes Land and Byrd Land?
Antartica These three "lands" are divisions of the continent of Antartica. Marie Byrd Land was named by Comander Richard Byrd for his wife.
Who was the first person to reach both the South and North Poles?
Roald Amundsen was the first man to reach the South Pole by foot, but he only flew over the North Pole. In the strictest meaning of attaining a Pole, this does not really count. We have to come a long way forward to find someone who reached both Poles by foot, to the Transglobe Expedition of 1979/82, when Ranulph Fiennes and Charlie Burton became the first persons to achieve both poles by foot. They reached the South Pole on December 17th 1980, and the North Pole on April 11th 1982.
Who was most famous Antarctic explorer?
It's hard to say who the most famous Antarctic explorer was. A few of them are very famous. One of the most famous is Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Others are Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott.
What continent is is Ellsworth land and Marie Byrd land on?
Antartica
