SIR HUBERT WILKINS
SECOND ARCTIC EXPEDITION SHORT DASHES UNDER ICE LONDON, Jan. 3. (Received Jan. 4, at 9 p.m.) " I have put my last penny in the second Arctic expedition, which cost about £35,000. I have £25,000 and hope to raise the remainder in England." said Sir Hubert Wilkins on his arrival from the United States. He added that the expedition would ;tart in July, 1937, or July, 1938' He proposes to cross from Spitzbergen under the North Pole to the Behring Sea, 2200 miles. The expedition will last about two months and a-half. "Although the submarine has been constructed to remain under the ice for five days at a time, I shall make short dashes of about 12 lours each, covering 50 miles. I aim to determine whether a submarine can be used as a permanent base for Arctic observations, and whether Crocker Island, believed to lie north-west of Ellersmere Land, really exists. I shall have a crew of six Norwegians and Englishmen My wife wants to go "'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23080, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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