In the book by Sergei Kovalev "Mysteries of the Sixth Continent" you can find extremely interesting details of the expedition of Richard Byrd in 1946-1947. According to the data of this researcher (chapter "What stopped Admiral Bird"?), Taken from the official magazine of the USSR Navy "Marine collection" of 1947-1948, which in those years could only be familiarized with Soviet generals, admirals and naval officers, ships of the expedition Byrd surveyed almost the entire coast of Antarctica. Moreover, these surveys were sometimes very strange in nature.
“On December 31, 1946, the carrier group, accompanied by two icebreakers, tried to break through to the Scott Island area (located just north of the Ross Sea in West Antarctica. - Auth.). At the same time, in accordance with the program of work, the Sennet submarine was supposed to study the thickness and shape of the local ice, as well as the depth in the area of the Ross Barrier, including taking samples of soil and sea water at various depths near the ice edge. But at the same time - here it is also to fire two torpedoes from onboard guns at icebergs. Aren't the methods of studying Antarctic ice too strange?
According to the official version, that day the icebreakers were unable to navigate the aircraft carrier and the submarine to the designated area, the Sennet received (also according to the official version) serious damage to the hull in the ice and was urgently taken to Wellington in the Norwind tug. At the same time, the aircraft from the aircraft carrier had to be relocated to the ice airfield of Kitovaya Bay […].
The American squadron began a new assault off the coast of Antarctica in January 1947, this time in the area of Queen Maud Land, and they found something interesting and important here. Ship planes from the Bay of Wales, starting from January 18, searched for so-called oases for two weeks and made almost 30 flights (only 20 were successful), including on February 15, two planes flew to the South Pole region (100 miles in direction of the "pole of inaccessibility").
At the same time, the western team was photographing the coast in the Balleny Islands region, and also circled the Oates Coast, Adelie Land and Wilkes Land. And even - flew to the area of the South Magnetic Pole. During this expedition, for the first time through the thickness of the ice, the study of rocks was carried out (by the deflection and strength of the magnetic field). For this, the Americans used a previously secret recording device - a magnetometer, which was released from an aircraft on a cable up to 30 meters long. Four flights over Antarctica were made with the magnetometer. What, besides rocks, did they find here?
A magnetometer, for example, is now widely used by anti-submarine aircraft in many countries of the world to detect submarines in the ocean depths. Or maybe you were looking for under-ice factories for the construction of flying saucers? Who can tell us about this today?
One of the notable discoveries of the western group was the discovery of an ice-free area on the Queen Mary Coast, just beyond the Shackleton Ice Shelf.
On that day, a seaplane under the command of Davis E. Bunger, taking off from the Kurritak seaplane base, flew over brown hills, between which lay unfrozen blue and green lakes, suggestive of the rich organic life that exists in their depths. A few days later, the same Bunger briefly landed his seaplane on an ice-free sea bay jutting into an oasis. Subsequently, this area became known as the Bunger oasis […].
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After not particularly effective research in the Ross and Davis Seas, Bird's squadron, having in the vanguard the Duffek group (he commanded the eastern group of the expeditionary flotilla. - Auth.), Circled Graham Land (one of the names of the Antarctic Peninsula, stretched towards South America. - Auth.).), came to the Weddell Sea. Apart from the events of December 31, 1946, everything went on as usual. It was here that something extraordinary happened, which made Byrd already on February 23, 1947, curtail Antarctic research and start moving home."
From the book: Ominous secrets of Antarctica. Swastika in the ice”. Osovin Igor, Pochechuev Sergey