7 December 2016:
When Admiral Byrd took three cows south in 1933, the herd – and his expedition – made dairy history. Their tale of sponsorship, headlines, and plenty of milk highlights the extent to which polar expeditions have been reliant on sponsorship, and reveals one of the more unusual ways Antarctica has been put to use for commercial purposes.
A research paper on Byrd’s cows by Hanne Nielsen, has just been published in The Polar Journal:
Nielsen, H. (2016) ‘Hoofprints in Antarctica: Byrd, Media, and the golden Guernseys’, The Polar Journal, pp. 1–16. doi:10.1080/2154896X.2016.1253825.