ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
WILKINS’ PROGRESS REPORT. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. December 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 9. Wilkins, in a wireless message from Deception Island, says that he made a flight to ascertain whether ice would form on the machine, also to examine the island fox - landing fields. The temperature was two degrees below zero, but no ice formed on the machine. No suitable field for skis was found. During the interval snow storms flew over Snow Island. When alighting an enormous albatross smashed into the butt of the propeller. The bird had a wing spread of ten feet. If it had struck the propellor tips or pilot’s windshield, disaster would have been likely. Near the island’s edges were crevasses many hundreds of yards long, wide enough to engulf the plane. They must examine the island on foot before using it as a base.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1928, Page 4
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