Desert of Death. The Antarctic. The World of Ice. Seldom indeed has the eye of man looked at this bleak desert of ice. This is a tiny portion of the limitless icepack which stands guard around the Antarctic continent. The Coast Guard's icebreaker NORTHWIND smashes its way into the virgin ice, making a passage for the thin-hulled vessels which made up the central group of the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic.

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Keywords: 17-a2-154, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg