PACIFIC ISLANDS
PREPARATION AS LANDING GROUNDS
NEW YORK, February 17. Dr. Dana Coman, one of Admiral Byrd's associates in Antarctica, has completed a survey of Baker and Howland Islands to determine methods of bringing them under full vegetation in the interests of the water supply. Another feature of the survey was to make adequate airway landings on the islands. He states that the water supply problem will take a decade, possibly a generation to solve. Hawaiian boys may have a concrete runway ready at Howland Island by the time Mrs. Putnam arrives on her flight round the world. It will be a great feat of navigation if she succeeds in finding the island, which is 1400 miles from Honolulu. Visibility is extremely limited owing to the lowness of the island, which is barely 20 feet,above the sea. Dr. Coman believes, however, that with normal luck she should succeed. Such or iho cable news on this pngo us la so headed has appeared in "The Times" and Is cabled tn Australia and New Zealand l).v special permission. It should !io understood '(lint tlio opinions aro not those ot "The Times" unless eaprcssU slated to Sis gp» _
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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195PACIFIC ISLANDS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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