POLAR EXPEDITIONS
NO MORE LAND IN ARCTIC CAPTAIN WILKINS'S OPINION Australian Press Association—United Service (Received 22nd May, 1 30. p.m.) OSLO, 21st.May. Captain Wilkins, the Arctic air explorer, declares that there seems to bo no chanco of finding any new land of any importance, judging by the results of Polar expeditions. He considers that scientific expeditions in the future will concentrate on oceanographic discoveries, possibly with the help of submarines. There is no reason, he says, why submarines should not voyage from Spitsbergen to Alaska, Incidentally, Wilkins denies that ho was invited to accompany General Nobile'iri his airship Italia. Wilkins says that his object in polar exploration is less to discover land than to obtain meteorological data of benefit to the world. For example, he desired to assist Australia with precautions against drought and save hundreds of thousands of sheep. This was one of the objects of the South Polar expedition. Signor Marconi had assured him that a short-wave system of weather reports was feasible.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 11
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