Kolonel Richard Evelyn Byrd adalah pengelana wilayah kutub dari Amerika Serikat dan penerbang terkenal. Ia lahir pada tanggal 25 Oktober 1888 di Winchester, Virginia. Ia menjelajahi Kutub Utara dan Kutub Selatan. Ia meninggal pada tanggal 11 Maret 1957. Gunung Byrd di pulau Ross, Antarctika dan kawah Byrd diberi nama dengan namanya.

Daftar pustaka 

 Time (magazine); Monday, November 8, 1926. Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Virginia, and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U.S.N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F. Byrd, is Governor of Virginia.

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 70South - information on Richard E. Byrd 
 Richard E. Byrd's 1926 Flight Towards the North Pole
 To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925–1927.
 The Flight of the 'America' - 1927
 Richard E. Byrd 1888-1957.
 Did Richard Byrd get to the North Pole in 1926? 
 A navigation expert's look at how Byrd's claim is one possible interpretation of his diary. 
 Alone  Byrd's 1938 account of his 1934 winter at Advance Base

 The Guided Missile Destroyer USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23) 
 Papers of Admiral Richard E. Byrd 
 Burial at Arlington National Cemetery at Find-a-Grave
 The Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University
 http://www.reversespins.com/byrd.html - allegedly contains a part of Byrd's "missing" diary, describing the "mysterious events" of his Antarctic flight

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