John Cleves Symmes Jr.

There is a, a Russian captain, um, Bellingshausen.

There's a British naval officer, uh, named Edward Bransfield.

And then there's this guy right here.

His name was, uh, they made a stamp after him.

Sorry, am I talking a lot? So Operation Highjump, the scale was staggering.

So they sent thirteen ships, almost five thousand men, and dozens of aircraft with an aircraft carrier, a submarine, and icebreakers.

Now, this guy named Admiral Richard E. Byrd, right, who's, who's America's most famous polar explorer, was the officer in charge.

And then the overall, um, of the over-overall project, and then this guy named Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, uh, commanded the task force at sea.