Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expeditions

Southward Ho, the start of one of Admiral Byrd's six

expeditions.

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.

The sea is strewn with loose, broken ice, but the sturdy ship

crunches steadily on to her improvised berth against the ice

barrier.

We pushed on right up to the ice barrier.

At length we sighted that great natural phenomenon,

the ice barrier.

Therefore, whether we liked it or not, we had to go alongside the great barrier.

Even for the sailor for whom the sea is an old story, there is adventure in

the oceans at the end of the world.

Some of us may answer this call to adventure and journey with Admiral

Byrd back to the poles, truly the ends of the Earth.