Little America (Antarctica)
Map from 1947 with stations I to IV and the Bay of Whales in the north
Little America I to V were existing US stations on the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Ross Sea from 1928 to 1958 . The first station was built as part of the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Others emerged during Byrd's second expedition (1933–1935), as the west base of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) and during the first Operation Deep Freeze (1955–1956). The research bases are namesake for the Little America Basin , a lake basin not far from the Bay of Whales .
Aerial photograph of Whale Bay with Little America IV (southern summer 1946-47)
Little America IV (ca.1947)
Aerial photograph of Little America V (1956)
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