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Byrd Expedition Explorers film mother and baby seals in Antarctica.
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.
Members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition raise barricades and build shelters in Little America, Antarctica.
Byrd Expedition members build Little America in Antarctica. Explorers at a camp site. Men shovel snow and pile up boxes to build a barricade against the strong icy winds. A man hits a stick on a pan to signal meal time. Men eat and drink at a table in the enclosure. A man takes a picture another one puts a flag in the ice sheet. Men dig in the snow with shovels. They raise tall planks to build a make shelters. Piles of boxes. Men work as a blizzard sweeps over the ice sheet. A man completes the roof with planks. Radio towers on the ice.
Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1929. A flock of Snow Petrels in Antarctica.
Wildlife photographed by members of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition in 1929. A flock of Snow Petrels in Antarctica. The birds sit on the ice sheet. Clouds overhead. Birds take flight.
Scientists with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition experiment with a waddle of Penguins in Antarctica.
Activities of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929.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.
Admiral Byrd prepares and leaves for the South Polar expedition in Antarctica during Operation Highjump.
Admiral Byrd prepares for South Polar expedition Operation Highjump in Antarctica. Ships at the East Coast Port. A United States plane on the ship. Sailor covers the plane and takes out the wing. Sailors with Husky snow dogs. Admiral Byrd and other officers look at a map. Scenes from former Polar expeditions: Ship sails in water with large amounts of ice in water. People disembark the ship. Tents on the ice. Snow dogs in the polar region. A dog huddling in a doghouse, but largely covered with snow. A man with a dog. Men pull sleds with equipment. Scenes again from Operation High Jump preparing to depart. People stand on ship's deck. A young woman waves to the people. Ship leaves the East Coast Port for south polar expedition.
Coast Guard icebreaker Northwind cuts free the strangled U.S. Navy Central Group from the ice in Antarctica.
Relates to the U.S. Antarctic expedition,Operation High Jump. U.S. navy fleet advances through heavy icy layer of the Antarctica. Submarine USS Sennet is caught between two ice layers. Coast Guard Icebreaker Northwind comes to the aid. Icebreaker Northwind comes to the aid of vessels that are stuck in ice. It rescues and tows the Sennet. Sailors capture an Antarctic Ross Seal and lift it aboard a ship in a cargo net. Northwind cuts free the strangled USS Mount Olympus and other Navy vessels from the ice, and the Supplyship Merrick (AKA-97) which has suffered ruptures and taken on water.
