AT DECEPTION ISLAND
WILKINS ARRIVES IN SNOW SQUALLS AEROPLANES SAFE London, November 14. Silr Hubert Wilkins, in a radio message from Deception Island, dated November 14, says: “One lone iceberg greeted us as we arrived through snow ' squalls at our Antarctic base this evening. Our two Lockhead ’planes, Los Angeles and San Francisco, were awaiting us in their winter clothing, having ridden out storms of sleet and winds and 50 degrees below zero, apparently secure and fit as when we left them eight months ago. After a fine trip from Montevideo we approached Deception Island with caution through heavy seas,' after riding out a storm. We entered the bay only just in time. Two hours after nightfall ice blocked the entrance we had traversed. The men are now mooring the ship in halfdarkness.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 11
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133AT DECEPTION ISLAND Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 11
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