Byrd Expedition Geological exploration party sets up camp site in Antartica. Men tie their shoe laces outside a tent. Men climb a mountain. A man climbs up. He takes out some papers from his backpack and takes pictures of the same. He climbs further upwards over the rocks, an ice axe in hand. Men wrap and tie load onto the sledge. Take out food from cans. Huskies in chains on the snow. Men put up a tent. A man uses a radio transmitter. Huskies around sledges. Men load and unload things.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 6-7 January 1912. December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Explorers in Antarctica. Man with a dog sledge. Melted glaciers in the water. Dogs pull the sledge. Explorers with camera equipment. Whales in the water. Men record the film. Whales emerge and then again do below the water several times. Sunlight reflected off the water. Melted glaciers in the water.
Byrd Expedition Explorers film seals in Antarctica. Dogs pull sledge with man on top. Seals lying on the ice. One enters the water, another moves over the ice. Skin and hind flippers of seal. A seal slides into a hole in the ice sheet. Seals lying around on the ice. Men on ski near the seals. A mother seal with her baby. The baby rests on the mother seal, sucks on the mother. Another baby seal lies next to the mother. The baby lying on its back. The mother rubs her back on the ice. The mother suckles the baby. Two seals emerge from the water and climb out onto the ice.
Sea Gulls and Snow Petrels in Antarctica, as photographed by members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929. . A flock of Sea Gulls on a glacier. They stand and move around. Two Sea Gulls share a piece of some food. They both pick at it. A small flock of gulls picks at a big piece of some food. A large flock of Snow Petrels on the ice. The ocean in the background. Some of them fly. The flock rests and then again takes flight.
Members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition observe wild life in Antarctica. A waddle of Penguins on ice in Antarctica. They slide on their bellies across the ice. Men with dogs follow the penguins. The penguins run as the men rush along. They surround the penguins. The men put an artificial penguin near a penguin as it reacts strongly. The artificial penguin on the ice. Other penguins come closer to explore the artificial one. They examine it and drop it on the ice. The ocean in the background. Penguins walk through a gap in the ice. Baby penguins follow. The waddle stands near a net.
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