Mount Balchen is an 11,205-foot-elevation (3,415-meter) mountain summit in Alaska, United States. Mount Balchen is a glaciated mountain located on the...

Navy Balchen Glacier in Antarctica Balchen Mountain in Antarctica (72°0′S, 27°12′E) Mount Balchen, a mountain in Antarctica (85°22′S, 166°12′W) Mount Balchen...

of Mount Balchen centered. Mount Giddings to left, Mt. Skarland to right, and part of Mt. Geist behind Balchen. List of mountain peaks of Alaska Geography...

of Alaska Geography of Alaska South aspect of Mt. Balchen centered. Mt. Giddings to left, Mt. Skarland to right, and part of Mt. Geist behind Balchen. Mt...

In 1974, Mount Balchen in Alaska was named after him, and there is a Mount Balchen in Antarctica also named in his honor. In 1976, Balchen was inducted...

Mount Deborah (5th), Hess Mountain (7th), McGinnis Peak (8th), and Mount Balchen (9th). "Hayes Range". Peakbagger. 2004. Retrieved 2016-12-26. v t e...

Mount Hayes is the highest mountain in the eastern Alaska Range, in the U.S. state of Alaska. Despite not being a fourteener, it is one of the largest...

Balchen, both of whom would later contribute to Byrd's expeditions. Bennett served as a pilot in his flight to the North Pole the next year. Balchen,...

Tanana River drainage basins. Hayes Range from the Denali Highway. L→R: Mt. Balchen, Mt. Hayes, Moby Dick, Mt. Shand Mt. Hayes and Moby Dick Aerial view looking...

Mountains Mount Aniakchak, active stratovolcano Mount Ascension Mount Augusta PB Mount Bagot Mount Balchen Mount Ballyhoo Mount Barrille Mount Bassie Mount Bayard...

westernmost point of Alaska (and the United States) Mount Wrangell, a volcano in Alaska Wrangell Volcanic Field, named after Mount Wrangell Wrangell Mountains...

Wales Island at the south end of the Alaska Panhandle. This was about 450 miles southeast of Bering's landfall near Mount St. Elias at the north end of the...

Bering and the crew of St. Peter sighted a towering peak on the Alaska mainland, Mount Saint Elias. Bering was anxious to return to Russia and turned westward...

Schwatka Lake in Whitehorse, Yukon, is named after him, as is Mount Schwatka, Alaska. In 2007, an Arctic Sharps rifle commemorating Frederick Schwatka...

Bluie West-8 on 7 October 1941, under the supervision of Colonel Bernt Balchen of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Following the fall of Denmark...

first ascent of Mount Saint Elias (Canada/U.S., 5,489 m). There the expedition searched for a mirage, known as the Silent City of Alaska, that natives and...

crossing of North America by a European in 1793. The Mackenzie River and Mount Sir Alexander are named after him. As a leading member of the North West...

native of Mount Bryan East, South Australia, the last of 13 children in a family of pioneer settlers and sheep farmers. He was born at Mount Bryan East...

for an airport. USAAF Colonel Bernt Balchen, who built Sondrestrom Air Base, knew Rasmussen and his idea. Balchen led a flight of two Consolidated PBY...

Krusenstern at the west end of Coronation Gulf (not Cape Krusenstern in Alaska), and turned south. By the first of September it was clear that they had...

was the first to complete the passage solely by ship, from Greenland to Alaska in the sloop Gjøa. Since that date, several fortified ships have made the...

Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest summit in New Zealand, is named for him. Another Mount Cook is on the border between the U.S. state of Alaska and the...

alliance during World War II, manifested during the construction of the Alaska Highway.[citation needed] In 1946 he was awarded the Royal Geographical...

the Bering land bridge that joined Siberia to northwestern North America (Alaska), leading to the Settlement of the Americas. Early Paleo-Eskimo groups included...

and 28, 1929, Commander Richard E. Byrd (navigator), chief pilot Bernt Balchen, and two other crewmen, the copilot and the photographer, made the first...

leg of the delivery flight, from Scotland to London, was flown by Bernt Balchen. 20 June Lt. Donald A. Innis, U.S. Navy, out of the Naval Ordnance Test...

training for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. USAAF Colonel Bernt Balchen was establishing a staging route across Greenland to ferry aircraft to...

flight started from Svalbard in Norway, and crossed the Arctic Ocean to Alaska. Nobile, with several scientists and crew from the Norge, overflew the Pole...

requests included the use of a supply ship to accompany Jeannette as far as Alaska. Among the less standard equipment acquired by De Long was an experimental...

piloted by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile, in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska. On May 12, the Geographic North Pole was sighted. Ellsworth made four expeditions...