SHORT AIR ROUTE
SOUTH AFRICA TO AUSTRALIA
OVER SOUTH POLAR CIRCLE
(Independent Cable Service.)
(Received December 22, 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, December 21
A White Paper gives details of plans for a short air route from South Africa to Australia by flying over the South Polar Circle via Adelie Land, making the total flight from Cape Town to Sydney 6500 miles, occupying 32| hours' flying time on a basis of 200 miles an hour
In return for permission from France to use Adelie Land the Governments of Britain, Australia, and New Zealand will agree to French planes using the British South Polar territories.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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102SHORT AIR ROUTE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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