The man in charge of the U.S. Antarctic Programs after the death of Adm. Richard Byrd in 1957 was born and raised in North Dakota. Richard Black accompanied Byrd on three Antarctic expeditions and ...

Robert Johnson, who as a teenager traveled to Antarctica on a thick-hulled wooden ship with Adm. Richard Byrd, died Sunday in Jacksonville. He was 102. He was the last survivor of any of Byrd’s ...

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd worried in Antarctica last week. The work of his two-year expedition had gone as far as practicable. He had made several successful exploratory flights. Dr. Laurence ...