The damaged proved easy to repair and by January 1945, both troops of Norwegian police officers from Sweden led by Bernt Balchen and the Soviet Air Forces could land at Høybuktmoen.
Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) for Bernt Balchen, pilot with Roald Amundsen on Arctic flights, and with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his South Pole flight of 1929.
In May the station was bombed by U.S. aircraft from Iceland led by Colonel Bernt Balchen.
Bernt Balchen | Jan Fridthjof Bernt | Bernt Rosengren | Bernt Persson | Bernt Øksendal | Bernt Julius Muus | Bernt Johansson | Bernt Anker |
-- Related is George Rex Noville (1932-1975)--> In 1927 in a trimotor Fokker C-2 monoplane, the America he flew with Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, and Bert Acosta on their record setting transatlantic flight.