RACE FOR ADVENTURE
FLIGHTS TO NORTH POLE WILKINS AND AMUNDSEN By Telegraph-Presfe Assn—Copyright (Aust. and fN.Z. Cable). (Received Jan. f>, 9.45 a.m.) London, .Jan. o. Spring will witness wlmf is virtually a race to the Arctic. lixperts are a Ready working atthd hangar oil Amundsen’s airship for his projected flight in April. Captain. Wilkins, the American, hopes to atari on an aeroplane from Alaska in March. An authority on the Arctic, writing in the Daily Express, points out that each explorer will _fl,y in a different direction. Wilkins starts early in order to- avoid the thaws. In the. event of Amundsen’s ship being unable to enter King’s Bay’, yhe-e he proposes to take to the air, .Wilkins has every chaace of winning.
-On the other hand, it is possible that Amundsen will probably fly irom Spi tzbergen.
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Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 5
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