# Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition: Journey to the Ice Barrier

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2105745439521648690
- Source language: English
- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 2026-10-02
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier

## Transcript

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=13) Southward Ho, the start of one of Admiral Byrd's six expeditions.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=18) Later, Byrd charts the course as the ship, her masts outlined against a scarred ice wall, nears the end of a fourteen-thousand mile journey.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=28) The sea is strewn with loose, broken ice, but the sturdy ship crunches steadily on to her improvised berth against the ice barrier.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=37) We pushed on right up to the ice barrier.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=39) At length we sighted that great natural phenomenon, the ice barrier.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=93) Therefore, whether we liked it or not, we had to go alongside the great barrier.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=106) Even for the sailor for whom the sea is an old story, there is adventure in the oceans at the end of the world.

[3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0zerNhNioFX8/en/admiral-byrd-s-antarctic-expedition-journey-to-the-ice-barrier?t=213) Some of us may answer this call to adventure and journey with Admiral Byrd back to the poles, truly the ends of the Earth.