ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
SIR HUBERT WILKINS AT DECEPTION ISLAND. Uri't-eil Press Association—By Elective Telegraph Copyright.) . (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Nov. 12. Sir Hubert "Wilkins- has wirelessed from Deception Island via Port Stanley: “Our American monoplane Los Angeles, with which Lieut. Eileson flew over the North Pole, was to-day the first complete aei’oplane to touch Antarctice -soil at Deception Island. The Hektoria. upholding her name, entered the harlwur on the sixth, anchored, and was then moored to the beach with six seven-inch hawsers, preparing to withstand the customary November storms, but so far fine weather prevails, enabling everyone from the captain to the mess hoy and- the membe-s of the expedition to busy themselves during every waking hour.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1928, Page 4
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