ROUTE OVER POLAR REGIONS
SOUTH AFRICA TO AUSTRALIA. LONDON, Dec. 21. A White Paper details plans of a short-circuit South Africa-Australia air route by travelling over the South Polar circle via Adehe Land, making the total Capetown-Sydney journey of 6500 miles in 32£ hours flying tun on the basis of 200 miles per hour. In return for French permission to use Adelie Land., the Government* of Britain Austral l.a and New Zealand S to French ’planes using British South Polar territories.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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81ROUTE OVER POLAR REGIONS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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