ARCTIC EXPLORATION
NEPAL FOR MEMBERS OF WATKIRS EXPEDITION (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph —Copyright RUGBY, November 5. The King has approved of the conferment of a medal in silver with a clasp inscribed, “ Arctic 1930-31,” to fourteen members of the British Arctic air route expedition. A posthumous award to Mr H. G. Watkins, who was drowned through the overturning of his Eskimo canoe, was included. The purpose of the expedition was to explore the Arctic ice cap of Greenland with a view to establishing an All-British air route across the Arctic to Canada.
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Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 7
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95ARCTIC EXPLORATION Evening Star, Issue 21254, 8 November 1932, Page 7
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