TRAVEL RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 190, 13 August 1934, Page 5

TRAVEL RECORD.

SIR HUBERT WILKINS. AIR LINERS AND STEAMER. RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TLMARU, this day. Sir Hubert Wilkins arrived yesterday by the steamer Port Nicholson and left soon afterwards for Christchurch, on his way north to join the Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition. The noted explorer established a record for fast travelling. He was in New Zealand in May, and since then has been in the United States and Great

Britain. Ho spent three weeks in New York, then crossed the Atlantic to England, where lie was engaged in perfecting his plans for his submarine expedition to the Arctic regions. , From London he flew by an Imperial Airways liner to Singapore, then to Sourabaya by a Dutch liner. He travelled 150 miles by motor boat to Banjuwang, where he connected with a boat for Broome. From Broome he travelled by air to Adelaide, then by train to Melbourne, and sailed for New Zealand on the Port Nicholson. Sir Hubert said he had plans for an extension of meteorological research in the Antarctic, the scheme to include the establishment and maintenance of twelve permanent stations along the Antarctic circle. On hie return from his forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic, and after his projected submarine trip to the Arctic had been completed, he would have his scheme brought to the notice of scientific organisations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America and the United States.