Hoover Presents Special Medal to Byrd...
- Kind
- Newsletter Article
- Date
- 21 Jun 1930
- Publisher
- New York Times
- Retrieved
- Jan 28, 2012
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Why Travel to the Antarctic?
But why, it has been asked, did you go there [the Antarctic]? Of what use to civilization can this lifeless continent be? ... [Earlier] expeditions contributed something to the accumulating knowledge of the Antarctic ... that helps us thrust back further the physical and spiritual shadows enfolding our terrestrial…