Features | American Experience | Official Site

The Wizard of Photography | Article

Important Events in Photography

Read about the first fixed photographic images, the invention of the daguerreotype and photography becoming a profession.

Alone on the Ice | Timeline

Exploration in the 20th Century

In 1902, Robert Scott, Edward Wilson and Ernest Shackleton make the first attempt to reach the South Pole.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Arctic Explorers

Arctic adventurers Richard E. Byrd, Roald Amundsen, and lincoln Ellsworth had much in common.

Alone on the Ice | Article

William Beebe

William Beebe was one of this century's leading pioneers into the oceanic world.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Bernt Balchen

A native of Tveit, Norway, Balchen first gained experience in Arctic flying when he served with Roald Amundsen.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Charles Murphy

Charles Murphy, the CBS correspondent who accompanied Byrd on his second Antarctic expedition played a major role in crafting the public persona of Richard Byrd.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Floyd Bennett

Floyd Bennett was also a history-making aviator, though there is evidence that he tried to shrug off the label.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Joseph Hill

Joseph Hill, mechanic on Byrd's Antarctica Expedition, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Eugene Rodgers

Journalist Eugene Rogers was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Bess Balchen Urbahn

Bess Balchen Urbahn, former wife of Bernt Balchen, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Bolling Byrd Clarke

Bolling Byrd Clarke, daughter of Richard E. Byrd, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.

Alone on the Ice | Article

Raimond Goerler

Raimond Goerler, Archivist of the Byrd Polar Center Archives at Ohio State University, was interviewed in 1998 for the documentary Alone on the Ice.