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Marie Byrd Land

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Marie Byrd Land

Portion of the unclaimed Pacific sector of Antarctica lying between Ross Sea and Ellsworth Land. It was reached in 1929 by Admiral Richard E Byrd, who named it after his wife.
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He has successfully negotiated some of the most difficult international routes including the north side of Everest, the north face of Kangchenjunga in Eastern Nepal (the world's third highest mountain), Mount Kenya, Mount Aconcaqua in Argentina as well as the Ross Sea and Marie Byrd Land in Antartica.
Tough at the top; Ian Jones meets a man who has scaled the highest ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
In the 1930s the US briefly made a claim to the unclaimed territory (Admiral Byrd named it Marie Byrd Land after his wife) but the US did not persist with it because it said that it disapproved of such claims.
The Antarctic nuclear-free zone by Suter, Keith / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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