Stuart Douglas Lansing Paine (October 18, 1910 – March 13, 1961) was an

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explorer.

Life

Paine was born in

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, the son of Ralph Delahaye Paine, author and journalist, and Katharine Lansing Morse. His older brother, Ralph Delahaye Paine, Jr., was editor and publisher of ''

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'' magazine and his twin brother was Philbrook Ten Eyck Paine. Paine attended

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, graduating in 1929, and

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, graduating in 1933. He joined the

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in 1939 and served as a naval

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prior to US involvement in

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. He was on the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of Admiral

Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader cr ...

, in charge of the expedition's dog teams. The expedition traversed 1410 miles by

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in 88 days and came within 180 miles of the

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. He wrote a book about the expedition called ''The Long Whip'', and his diaries of the expedition were transcribed, annotated by his daughter, Merlyn Paine, and published by the University of Missouri Press. in 2007 as ''Footsteps on the Ice''.

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in Antarctica, discovered in 1934 by the expedition, was named for him by Byrd. Byrd also named Mount Durham after Paine's hometown. Later in life, he was president of a number of

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manufacturing companies.

References

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