ISLAND AIR STATIONS
THE PACIFIC ROUTE SURVEY COMPLETED Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright NEW YORK, February 17. Dr Dana Coman, Admiral Byrd’s associate, has completed a survey of Baker and Howland Islands to determine methods for bringing them under full vegetation in the interests of the water supply. The other feature of the survey was to make adequate airway landings on the islands. He states that the water sujjply problem will take a decade, possibly a generation. “Hawaiian boys may have a concrete runway ready at Howland by the time Mrs Earhart arrives. It will be a great feat of navigation if she succeeds in findingthe island, which is 1,400 miles from Honolulu, and visibility is extremely limited owing to the lowness of the island, which is barely 20ft above the sea.” He believes, however, that with normal luck she should succeed.
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Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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141ISLAND AIR STATIONS Evening Star, Issue 22577, 19 February 1937, Page 9
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