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Little America

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Little America
A U.S. base for explorations in Antarctica on the Ross Ice Shelf. Richard E. Byrd established and named the settlement in 1929.
Little America
n
(Placename) the chief US base in the Antarctic, on the Ross Ice Shelf: first established by Richard Byrd (1928); used for polar exploration


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