CAPTAIN WILKINS' STORY,
FARTHEST NORTH IN ALASKA.
jjfTO THE GREAT UNKNOWN.
FLYERS SEE NO LAND
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(Received 1 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 7
Captain Wilkins' story of his farthest Vorth Alaska flight reads like a novel. On leaving Fairbanks on Wednesday iveek the motor worked like a charm; within five hours the flyers found themselves over the village of Point Barrow. "Things were then going so well with us" said Captain Wilkins, "that we decided to keep on going North. During the next three hours we accomplished seventy-five miles seaward into that preat unknown. AA : e reached 73 deg. 30 minutes North flying .at an elevation 0 f 7000 feet. The visibility was good gnd from that altitude we could see many miles in every direction. Leaving point Barrow we crossed a broad expanse of fairly smooth ice, then we traversed R n area of rough hummocky ice that stretched as far as the eye could reach in every direction broken by leads of open Water on all sides. AYe saw no evidence of land and our return was delayed by bad weather."—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 82, 8 April 1926, Page 7
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