ARCTIC SEARCHERS.
THE POOLING OF KNOWLEDGE. LOST RUSSIAN AIRMEN. LONDON, May 10. The Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, has arrived at Southampton on his way to Moscow to take part in a conference of all concerned in the search for the missing Russian airmen, who were lost last year while on a trans-Polar flight from Moscow to the United States. At the conference, all the geographical and scientific knowledge gained in the search will be pooled. Referring to the flights that he and Canadian aviators had made in the Arctic in the past six months, Sir Hubert said he had found it possible to fly by moonlight. Tt had been thought to he impossible to fly during the long winter months, when night displaces day entirely.
“We flew 44,000 miles,” lie said “the longest flight being 3300 miles. We observed 170,000 square miles of the Arctic Ocean, of which about 130,000 square miles had not been seen before.” Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to set out for the South Pole from South Africa in October.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 187, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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