" Antarctica: 1932 South Pole Regions map ... Poster

This early map of the Antarctic regions was published in October 1932, just a few years after Byrds historical flight over the South Pole. Parts of the inset maps were constructed using aerial photographs and the article "Mapping the Antarctic from the Air: The Aerial Camera Earns Its Place as the Eyes and Memory of the Explorer" appeared in the same issue of National Geographic. • Inset map of Byrds South Pole flight • Inset maps of King Edward VII Land and part of Marie Byrd Land, and Antarctic Archipelago • Routes of explorers and aeroplane flights • Unexplored regions • Geographical features including mountains, glaciers and crevasses, shelf ice, sea ice, and land under perpetual snow and ice