Richard Evelyn Byrd

Kolonel Richard Evelyn Byrd adalah pengelana wilayah kutub dari Amerika Serikat dan penerbang terkenal. Ia lahir pada tanggal 25 Oktober 1888 di Winchester, Virginia. Ia menjelajahi Kutub Utara dan Kutub Selatan. Ia meninggal pada tanggal 11 Maret 1957. Gunung Byrd di pulau Ross, Antarctika dan kawah Byrd diberi nama dengan namanya.

Daftar pustaka

• Time (magazine); Monday, November 8, 1926. Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Virginia, and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U.S.N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F. Byrd, is Governor of Virginia.

Pranala luar

• "The North Pole Flight of Richard E. Byrd: An Overview of the Controversy". Polar Archival Program, Ohio State University. 2007. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2007-10-13. Diakses tanggal 2007-07-14. 
• 70South - information on Richard E. Byrd Diarsipkan 2006-01-18 di Wayback Machine.
• Richard E. Byrd's 1926 Flight Towards the North Pole
• To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925–1927.
• The Flight of the 'America' - 1927
• Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957.
• Did Richard Byrd get to the North Pole in 1926? Diarsipkan 2006-02-08 di Wayback Machine.
• A navigation expert's look at how Byrd's claim is one possible interpretation of his diary. Diarsipkan 2009-09-16 di Wayback Machine.
• Alone Diarsipkan 2010-12-01 di Wayback Machine. Byrd's 1938 account of his 1934 winter at Advance Base

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