WILKINS’ EXPEDITION
IMPORTANT DISCOVER I KS. (Received 11.5 a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 20. Wilkins, in a copyright message, states: “Graham Land is separated from the great Polar continent by an ice-filled channel. The question which puzzled geographers for ages was solved to-day by a flight in the monoplane beyond the volcanic mountains in Grahamland, enabling us to see 650 miles south over the Arctic continent It proved conclusively that the range does not extend uninterruptedly. It lias previously been the belief of science that the mountains in Grahamland extended towards the pole and perhaps beyond. We disproved that to-day. We also gained an important sight of the geographical formation of the little-known land of ice. A runway of half a mie had to be cleared through the snow and the take-oft was very difficult.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11024, 21 December 1928, Page 6
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