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Flight Commemorates First Flyer to Reach South Pole
Byrd's 1929 journey opened the southernmost continent to science
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A bust of Richard E. Byrd at McMurdo Station is an Antarctic Treaty Historic Site.
Credit: Peter West, National Science Foundation