EXPLORER’S PLAN
FLIGHT TO ANTARCTIC.
INFORMATION TO BE SOUGHT
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
Received May 20, 9.10 a.m. BRISBANE, May 20. Captain G. H. Wilkins, who has just returned from an exploring expedition in North Queensland on behalf of tho British Museum, has announced that ho intends to lead an Antarctic expedition. He hopes to be in Antarctic waters, ready for an aeroplane flight, in January next. He proposes to take two aeroplanes to the Antarctic coast directly south of New Zealand and fly to Graham’s Land.
His object will be to secure information of the economic value with regard to the known vast stores of coal, mineral and other wealth in Antarctic lands. This flight will be a preliminary to a projected huge international scheme involving the use of specially fitted ships for supplying daily meteorological records to all parts of the world. It is estimated that the cost of the international scheme will be somewhere in the vicinity of £2,000,000.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 142, 20 May 1925, Page 5
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