THE ANTARCTIC

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 44, 20 August 1925, Page 5

THE ANTARCTIC

AN AERIAL ATTACK

LIEUT. WILKINS'S PLANS

CONDITIONS BETTER'THAN IN

THE ARCTIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIUIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 18th August. Regarding the purchase of Amundsen's machine, Lieutenant Wilkins is enthusiastic regarding the idea that the planewhich has gone furthest north should go furthest south. He has arranged with the Ross Sea Whaling Company to land the machine and supplies on the icefoot at Framheim, Amundsen's old winter quarters (1911). Then the South Shetland Whalers' Company will pick it up on arrival at Graham's Land and bring it to South America. Mathewe will be phief pilot, and a Norwegian most experienced with ice conditions has agreed to act as second piloti Lieut. Wilkins expects that the expedition will last six months. Commenting on the rumour that Amundsen would have no use for aeroplanes on his next Polar attempt, Lieut. Wilkina said there was no comparison between the Arctic and the Antarctic. In the latter there were better conditions, and it was safer over the mainland mass, allowing the establishment of' depots. He had consulted Amundsen, who, though he did not then look at the matter from the airman* viewpoint, reviewl ed the conditions and former experiences, believes the conditions in the Bay of Whales, King Edward Land, ideal, as he only met with two storms in the twelve months he was there. Lieut. Wilkins also consulted Commander Preatrud, one of Amundsen's Antarctic party, who journeyed 200 miles in King Edward Land, and who says an aeroplane can land almost anywhere,