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[News Clip: Byrd] captions transcript

[News Clip: Byrd]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a visit to Dallas by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a well-known explorer preparing for a trip to Antarctica.
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: World] (open access)

[News Script: World]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about British and American scientists who claim that they have found the missing link providing that once about 200 million years ago.
Date: July 18, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Possibilities for uranium in Antarctica (open access)

Possibilities for uranium in Antarctica

Discussing the evidence of the potential for uranium in Antarctica.
Date: February 1953
Creator: Judd, Edward K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Ship] (open access)

[News Script: Ship]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 16, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Gretchen Legler and Ruth Hill, July 14, 2015

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Gretchen Legler from Salt Lake City, Utah, and her partner Ruth Hill, from Woburn, Massachusetts, both homesteaders. Legler and Hill discuss their respective families, upbringing, their interest in animals and the environment, the influence of their families, traveling to Anatarctica, Alaska, and other places, meeting one another and developing a relationship, returning to New England and developing a farm, neighbors and the local community, and slaughtering and the ethics of meat.
Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A.; Hill, Ruth & Legler, Gretchen
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty (open access)

The Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty

This report discusses the history of international cooperation in Antarctica and the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
Date: June 1, 1970
Creator: Fletcher, Patrice A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes and Their Uranium Favorability: Final Report (open access)

Cordilleran Metamorphic Core Complexes and Their Uranium Favorability: Final Report

From objective and scope: The objective of this report us to provide a descriptive body of knowledge on Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes including their lithologic and structural characteristics, distribution within the Cordillera, and their evolutionary history and tectonic setting. We also examine the occurrence of uranium in the context of possibility for uranium concentration.
Date: November 1980
Creator: Coney, Peter J. & Reynolds, Stephen J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 11, U.S. Naval Air Facility, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (open access)

Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Report 11, U.S. Naval Air Facility, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

From introduction: The study is essentially an economic evaluation of the construction and operation of nuclear power plants at several designated military installations where increased power generating capabilities of 5 to 40 mwe may be required by the Government during the period 1963 through 1970.
Date: July 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Pole Station Antarctica (open access)

Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Pole Station Antarctica

From introduction: In the report will be found a description of a proposed 500 kw nuclear power plant together with concept drawings, construction cost estimate, design and construction schedule, and operating, maintenance and fuel costs.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Byrd Station Antarctica (open access)

Study of Remote Military Power Applications: Byrd Station Antarctica

From introduction: In the report will be found a description of a proposed 800 kw nuclear power plant together with concept drawings, construction cost estimate, design and construction schedule, and operating, maintenance and fuel costs.
Date: July 1960
Creator: Henry J. Kaiser Company
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Byrd] (open access)

[News Script: Byrd]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a visit to Dallas by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a well-known explorer preparing for a trip to Antarctica.
Date: November 25, 1955
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

The world: prepared expressly for the National Geographic Magazine, showing the political divisions, including those established after the World War

Atlas map of the world showing international and states boundaries after World War I. The map includes insets of the north polar region (upper-left), south polar region (upper-right), density of population and prevailing winds (lower-right), and natural vegetation and ocean currents (lower-left). Scale [ca. 1:39,600,000] (625 miles to the inch).
Date: 1922
Creator: Grosvenor, Gilbert
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the World Showing Trade Routes & Shortest Sailing Distances Between Canadian & Foreign Ports

Atlas map of the world, presenting countries in a variety of colors, indicating the distance in nautical miles between Canadian ports and various maritime destinations. A box in the lower-right corner sets the synthesis of these distances in a table. Scale graduated to various degrees of latitude.
Date: 1930
Creator: Canada. Department of the Interior.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

World at one view.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, political boundaries, and cities in six continents. Includes tables [populations, cities, religions, building heights, rivers] and illustrations. Insets [Illustrations]: "Panoramic view of the route to China, by the Oregon railroad and the Pacific Ocean. This road once built, would become the great highway of nations," "Mongul," "Mountains of the Eastern Hemisphere," "Malay," "Female costumes of the different parts of the World," "African," [Mountains of the] "Western Hemisphere," "Caucasian," and "Waterspout." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:80,000,000].
Date: 1847
Creator: Phelps, Humphrey, 19th cent.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Johnson's map of the world on Mercator's projection.

Map shows explorers sailing routes with the dates of voyages through 1842; seven continents, political boundaries, major cities, and physical features; Australian colonies of West, North, and South Australia, and New South Wales; [modern-day Alaska as] "Russian Territory." Relief shown by hachures. No scale noted.
Date: 1846
Creator: Johnson and Ward
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Johnson's World : on Mercator's projection.

Map shows seven continents, Oceanica, and Australasia with major cities and political divisions; "Alaska" [not Russian America], "Hindostan" [India], Russia and Russian Empire, Chinese Empire. Includes explorer's routes with dates. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1865
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Johnson's map of the world on Mercator's projection.

Map shows early nineteenth century cities and geography of Africa, Asia, North America, south America, Europe, and Oceania. Exploration routes of Captain James Cook and Captain Charles Wilkes are noted. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca.1:67,000,000].
Date: [1862..1863]
Creator: Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett), 1827-1884
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The World on an equatorial projection: map of the eastern & western hermispheres.

Map shows geography, cities, and place names of continents viewed in the western hemisphere, eastern hemisphere, northern hemisphere, and southern hemisphere. Includes information on "Recent Antarctic Discoveries." Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and pictorially. No scale noted.
Date: 1852
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

Map shows North America and South America as understood during the late sixteenth century. Political boundaries are indicated by coloration in different regions of each continent. Relief shown pictorially. No scale indicated.
Date: 1570
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annex VI to the Protocol of Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty : message from the President of the United States transmitting Annex VI on liability arising from environmental emergencies to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Annex VI), adopted on June 14, 2005 (open access)

Annex VI to the Protocol of Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty : message from the President of the United States transmitting Annex VI on liability arising from environmental emergencies to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Annex VI), adopted on June 14, 2005

This amendment to the Antarctic Treaty deals with preventing and managing environmental emergencies in the Antarctica Treaty area.
Date: 2009
Creator: United States. President (2009- : Obama) & Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
ReSource, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1993 (open access)

ReSource, Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 1993

ReSource magazine includes articles and notes about research at University of North Texas in various academic fields.
Date: 1993
Creator: University of North Texas
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Climate in 2009 (open access)

State of the Climate in 2009

This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Andt, D. S.; Baringer, M. O.; Johnson, M. R.; Alexander, L. V.; Diamond, H. J.; Fogt, R. L. et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the Climate in 2008 (open access)

State of the Climate in 2008

This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Peterson, T. C.; Baringer, M. O.; Diamond, H. J.; Fogt, R. L.; Levy, J. M.; Richter-Menge, J. et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2004/5: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication discusses global environmental efforts, successes, and setbacks of 2004.
Date: 2005
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library