Off to Antarctic Again
And Then By Submarine to
North Pole
SIR HUBERT WILKINS BUSY
United Press Association. —ny Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, Received Thursday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, July 24.
Sir Hubert Wilkins has arrived from Germany on route for South America in connection with an Antarctic expedition. He said he planned to undertake a submarine exploration of the north polar seas in 1937. Ho had called for plans from four builders for a submarine a hundred feet overall with twenty feet beam at a cost of 100,000 dollars. He said tho equipment might cost another .100,000 dollars, although he still had a lot ot equipment left from the Nautilus. He hoped the vessel would be ready for experimental cruises probably in Lake Eerie in the winter of 193(5-37. He hoped to start for the North Pole in the spring of 1937.
Sir Hubert is on his way io South America to join the National Geographic Society’s expedition to the Antarctic. He expects to return next March to begin preparations for his North Pole expedition.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 174, 26 July 1935, Page 7
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