Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Jan. 26, 2005

Byrd Flight

Produced by the National Science Foundation, this Web site commemorates explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd's historic flight to the South Pole about 75 years ago. Chronicling how aircraft make scientific research in polar regions possible, the site contains an overview of Byrd's accomplishments. It also features a first-person account of a commemorative flight that recently retraced Byrd's route and accounts of current Antarctic research.

Go to: www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/events/byrd

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