IN THE ARCTIC
AK AERIAL SURVEY FRANKLIN CAMPS SIGHTED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, September 9. (Received September 10, at 2 p.m.) An Edmonton (Alberta) message says: Major L. T. Burwash (a Canadian explorer and pilot) and Mr W. E. Gilbert are now flying back to civilisation after reaching the northwest corner of King William Island, in the Arctic, where they located the sites of two camps made by tho expedition of Sir John Franklin eighty-three years ago. in which more than 100 men perished. The North Magnetic Pole was reached and the area mapped by aerial photography. The flyers also mapped 1,000 miles of the Canadian Arctic coast line, and surveyed territory hitherto uncharted.
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Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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115IN THE ARCTIC Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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