FLIGHT ACROSS THE POLE
AMUNDSEN'S PLANS MADE. (ItBBTBR'S TELEOKAM.) (Received 26th May, 3 p.m.) LONDON, 25th May. Advices from Bergen state that it is settled that Amundsen will start on his flight across tho North Pole from Wainwright, Alaska, to Spitzbergen, about 20th June. It is expected that it will take twenty-two hours. A Norwegian [ patrol ship and two seaplanes will assist in the flight, the former cruising at tho edge of 'tha polar ice north of Spitzbergen, while the seaplanes fly noflrthward to the Pole to meet Amundsen and escort him home, or help if nec-essary. '
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 8
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97FLIGHT ACROSS THE POLE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 8
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