GREAT FLIGHT ACROSS ARCTIC. The map shows Point Barrow, Alaska, from which point Captam G. H. Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson flew across the Arctic to Green Harbour, Svalbard (Spitzbergen), in a light aeroplane. En route they were marooned by a storm on Dead Man s Island, which lies just to the north of Spitzbergen,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 11
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54GREAT FLIGHT ACROSS ARCTIC. The map shows Point Barrow, Alaska, from which point Captam G. H. Wilkins and Lieutenant Eielson flew across the Arctic to Green Harbour, Svalbard (Spitzbergen), in a light aeroplane. En route they were marooned by a storm on Dead Man s Island, which lies just to the north of Spitzbergen, New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19929, 24 April 1928, Page 11
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