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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Norman Vaughan. Timecode In: 00:01:40. Timecode out: 01:15:01. Notes: Byrd; South Pole Expedition. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono. NPR/ National Geographic Norman Vaughan (Interviewed in Eagle Creek, Alaska on 10/14/98 by Peter Breslow) PB 00:02:10 When you think of Antarctica, what comes to mind? 00:02:14 NV 00:02:15 Of course the first thing that comes to mind is some little occasion relative to the Byrd Antarctic expedition because that was such a big part of my life and you speak about dogs if I didn't think of something here in Alaska then I'd be thinking of driving dogs down there as they pertain to our living there because they were so important to the expedition and to me personally. PB 00:02:42 How about in your mind's eye? Visually, what comes up? 00:02:45 NV 00:02:47 Visually¿our camp at Little America. I think visually that's the big thing because we lived there so long. We were part of it, we built it and we left it and I keep thinking of that, I think. PB 00:03:08 Describe the camp. 00:03:10 NV 00:03:10 Describe the camp? Firstly, it was nothing. Firstly, the five minutes after we gotten to the ice, Admiral Byrd called me and said, Norman, harness your dog team and take me into the interior, we are going to pick out a site for Little America¿er..for our camp, he didn't call it Little America at that moment. And he said, we are going to take Svarry Strom and Bernt Balkan with us on skis but you and I are going on your dog team so I was thrilled to be asked to drive in there and take him in. I had absolutely nothing to do with picking out the site because I didn't know anything about ice but those three did and they picked out a site and in turned out to be excellent and imagine the thrill that I got that night when we put up our tents and I got to sleep in the same tent as Admiral Byrd. I was only a kid at college and it was my first big experience and it was marvelous and we spoke of our families back in Boston on Beacon Hill singing Christmas carols. It was Christmas day when we landed on the ice, so it was really Christmas night that we were doing this. So we got up in the morning and they did the picking out of a site and they picked a good one because it lasted many, many years before it broke off and went north into the waters. PB 00:04:41 What was it like to travel across the ice down there? 00:04:44 NV 00:04:45 To travel across the ice for us was.. we were on skis the whole time, we never rode anything on the sleds except when they were empty going from Little America to the ship. Those were the only times that we rode. We slept at Little America and got up in the morning and had coffee and got onto our sled and the dogs never went off the trial there was only one place to go so we started them and then we went to sleep for the nine miles that it took the dogs to go out there over this route and it was the best route from the ship out to Little America. I had a originally hoped that it was going to be about three miles and it turned out to be nine miles which meant all of that 650,000 lbs. had to go out into nine miles of trip and one place was a bad crevice which changed all the time and we had to keep opening in as it would shut on us and we had to do that with pick and ice axes and we'd make a path through there but it would last a couple of days then it would bulge up again and we would have to break it again because we had to make a pretty smooth trail going out there for we had all these things on board. The most interesting of all was the moving of his airplane from the ship to Little America. He called me one night, Admiral, Commander Byrd did, and said "Can you tow my airplane out to Little America?" I said "I don't know I've never towed an airplane Admiral, Commander but we certainly will try and I laid a big horse... (Notes truncated)
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