Lindberghs in Arctic
BIG HOP FROM BAKER LAKE. VANCOUVER, Aug. 5. A message from Aklavik, in the North-West Territories of Canada, states that the Lindbcrgs landed hero at 6.5 a.m. on Wednesday, completing an eleven hundred mile hop in eleven and a half hours from Baker Lake. Every resident in the busy Jittio Arctic hamlet on the Delta of the Mackenzie river cheered the flyers. They will probably remain overnight before proceeding to Port .Barrow, Alaska.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6622, 7 August 1931, Page 7
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76Lindberghs in Arctic Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6622, 7 August 1931, Page 7
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