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(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, September 9. “The doctors say I must not fly to Australia, but T. am determined to do it,’’ said Kingsford Smith. “I intend leaving within a fortnight.” VANCOUVER, September 9. An Edmondton (Alberta) message says: Major L. T. Burwash, Canadian explorer, and Pilot W. E. Gilbert, are now flying back to civilisation, after reaching the- north-west corner of King William Land in the Arctic, where they located the sites of two ramps of the expedition of Sir John Franklin, eighty-th roe years ago, in which more than a hundred men perished. The north magnetic Pole was reached, and the area mapped by nerial photography. The fliers also mapped a thousand miles of the Canadian Arctic coastline and surveyed territory hitherto uncharterod.
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Grey River Argus, 11 September 1930, Page 3
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