WILKINS PARTY
RETURNING FROM DECEPTION ISLAND ' EQUIPMENT STORED UNTIL NEXT SEASON (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, January 27. Sir Hubert Wilkins, •in a wireless message from Deception Island, states that the snow is disappearing more rapidly than Ims ever, been known before, leaving areas of dark volcanic soil uncovered amid the mountains of snow. “On Monday or Tuesday travelling on a Felrus boat of the trawler type we shall start for home, calling at the Falklands to board the Royal Mail packet Orduna. Our route will be through .Magellan Straits and up the coast of South America. We should reach New York In the middle of March. Our equipment is safely stored. Upon our return a few days’ work will put it in.readiness for continuing our programme, which we hope to conclude next December. Eielson. Crossan. and Porter are disappointed at being unable to make the Ross Sea flight this season, and pledge . themselves to return to complete the job. Victor Olsen, the wireless operator, has given very efficient service, working, late at night and rising at 4.30 in the mornings to copy news broadcast from San Francisco.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 106, 29 January 1929, Page 11
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