1933 - Exploration, Colonization

Exploration, Colonization

Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy, leads a second Antarctic expedition with the aim of mapping and claiming territory around the South Pole (see 1929). He will spend the winter of 1934 from March to August alone in a hut; buried beneath the ice 123 miles south of Little America while temperatures plunge to between -58° F. and -76° F. (-50° C. and -60° C.)., Byrd will suffer frostbite and carbon monoxide poisoning before being rescued.

Explorer-colonizer Luigi, duca d'Arezzo, dies at Abruzzi City outside Mogadiscio (later Mogadishu) in Italian Somaliland March 18 at age 60.