FolkloreSomething Told · Antarctica (Little America IV on the Ross Ice Shelf; Queen Maud Land in the Base 211 story)Obscurity 7 of 7
Operation Highjump and Base 211
A United States Navy operation of 1946-47 to set up Little America IV, a research base in Antarctica. A story that Colin Summerhayes and Peter Beeching call a myth recast it as an Allied attack on a secret German base, Base 211, in Queen Maud Land.
26 August 1946 to late February 194712 routes out →