Historical features

...or, direct links to articles which may be linked to the timelines somewhere or someday...

• The photo page from 1959 McMurdo
• About the Byrd memorials in McMurdo, Wellington, and Dunedin
• Demolition of BIT--clearing the way for the first phase of the new station!
• The origin and story of the first "Round the World Race"
• The REAL story about Byrd's chocolate bar, supposedly found at Pole!
• The NEW time capsule, buried in the foundation of the elevated station
• Air Force to the rescue--130's called in on short notice to resupply the inland stations--in January 1960!
• Carl Disch goes for a walk...the tragic 1965 winter tale from Byrd Station
• 321 recovery from East Antarctica...the full story
• The first women to visit Pole in November 1969
• The mystery of the IGY Time Capsule (originally inside the hut you see in Cliff Dickey's 1957 photo above)
• Building the Dome...station construction photos from the old days
• Last Sunset...March 2000 photos by Rodney Marks
• Who was Williams, and why is this field named after him???
• The FIRST winter medevac--Byrd Station, April 1961...with a twist!
• The first true internet access from Pole
• 917, that crashed plane at the end of the skiway...
• and Max Conrad's aircraft--the OTHER crashed plane at the end of the other skiway
• Dry Gulch, Antarctica (or, the construction camp before the great fire of 1976)
• Old Pole, a tunnel runs through it, or, the night the lights went out...by Dick Wolak
• The NMCB-71 signboard in the biomed arch
• the blue ice runway surveys...
• McMurdo's Chapel of the Snows, a look back
• About Dr. Martin Pomerantz, his Land and his MAPO...
• About those SP 90 License Plates