LINKING TROPICS AND POLES
CHAIN OF WEATHER STATIONS. SIR H. WILKINS’ AMBITION. (United Pres 3 Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.50 a.m to-day. WINNIPEG. Feb. 20. A chain of meteorological stations, linked with posts in the Arctic, the tropics and the Antarctic in daily radio coicmunication with a _ central bureau is the ambition of Sir Hubert Wilkins. When that becomes reality his life ambition will have been fulfilled, ho told interviewers to-day. At the central station reports would bo assembled and correlated thus making long distance weather forecasts Sir Hubert Wilkins, who accompanies the Ellsworth-Balclien aerial expedition to the Antarctic this summer, plans a second submarine iournev to the Arctic in 1934 or 1935 to vst'udv weather .conditihns. The ’plane to be used bv Ellsworth arrives here on Tuesday for test flights with Balohcn at the controls.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 21 February 1933, Page 9
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