Hoofprints in Antarctica: Byrd, media, and the golden Guernseys

• Published in: The Polar Journal
• Main Author: Nielsen, HEF
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2016
• Subjects: Language; Communication and Culture; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Byrd; Little America; Little America II; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2016.1253825; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/114925

Cows and Antarctica rarely exist in the same sentence, let alone the same region. In 1933 Admiral Richard Byrd changed that, when he took three golden Guernseys to Little America II. These Antarctic cows may have appeared as little more than a footnote in Antarctic history, but their story is reveal...