Richard E. Byrd

The Files

• Base 211: The Nazi Antarctic Base — Rear Admiral and officer in charge of Operation Highjump (Task Force 68)
• The Flat Earth Antarctic Wall — Postwar Antarctic expedition leader later absorbed into Antarctic-conspiracy retellings.
• The Hollow Earth Pole Hole (Peary vs. Byrd) — Real polar aviator whose fame and contested records were repurposed into the central witness figure of the theory.
• The Dead Admiral Byrd — Admiral and explorer whose role in Operation Highjump made him the central witness figure of the theory.
• The Flat Earth Wall in the Arctic — Polar aviation figure whose earlier fame and later mythic status made him central to polar-conspiracy storytelling.
• The UFO and the Antarctica Connection — Polar explorer whose name is repeatedly used in later stories about secret Antarctic discoveries.

Connected Figures & Organizations

• U.S. Navy · 3 shared
• Alfred Ritscher · 2 shared
• United States Navy · 1 shared
• United States Air Force · 1 shared
• Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion · 1 shared
• Wilbur Glenn Voliva · 1 shared
• Robert E. Peary · 1 shared
• German Antarctic Expedition 1938-39 · 1 shared
• Heinz Schäffer · 1 shared
• Kriegsmarine · 1 shared
• Otto Wermuth · 1 shared
• US Navy Task Force 68 · 1 shared

Timeline

1. 1926The Hollow Earth Pole Hole (Peary vs. Byrd)
2. 1930The Flat Earth Antarctic Wall
3. 1938Base 211: The Nazi Antarctic Base
4. 1938The UFO and the Antarctica Connection
5. 1946The Dead Admiral Byrd
6. 1948The Flat Earth Wall in the Arctic