ARCTIC EXPLORERS.
WILKINS FLIES AGAIN. SEARCH FOR POLAR LAND. (Received 11.35 p.m.) Renter. VANCOUVER. May 5. The representative of the Associated Press at Fairbanks, Alaska, says Captain G. 11. Wilkins announces that he will again leave Fairbanks to-day with Lieutenant „ Eielson, his pilot, en route to Point Barrow in the single-engine aeroplane Alaskan. From Point Barrow the two explorers will fiv northward on their iast trip over the Arctic wastes in an attempt to discover land. They intend to fly 400 miles north of Point Barrow and to cruise east and west over the Arctic for 200 miles. They will then return to Point Barrow. AMUNDSEN'S AIRSHIP. DEPARTURE FOR SVALBARD. (Received 12.35 a.m.) Renter. LENINGRAD. May 5. Captain Roald Amundsen's airship Norge has departed for Svalbard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 9
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