ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 554, 31 December 1925, Page 5

ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC

PROJECTED FLIGHTS. CAPTAIN W:1 LAI.NS’S. PLANS Press Association Telegram. New York, December 20. Captain Wilkins In an interview said his association wth the Detroit Arctic expedition did not mean that he had abandoned big Antarctic plans involving the Australian and New Zealand Polar Pacific expedition, leaving New Zealand about October, 1926, ag he expects his Arctic work will be completed before then. All the 'profits he was able to save from the Arctic would be used in connection with the Australian and New Zealand or a substitute expedition. The machine he used in the Arctic flight would be used in xlie Antarctic, taking the place of N 25, for which he had negotiated, but which lie had failed to secure owing to the lack of Australian financial support. Captain Stefansson interviewed, stated that the Arctic flight would be of great benefit- to Captain Wilkins in his further work of demonstrating that Polar air conditions were no worse, and possibly better, than elsewhere, and the Poles were not barren, ice-covered wastes, which explorers had long known. But it was necessary actually to demonstrate the fact to convince the public and arouse interest in support of further exploration and development of the regions.