POLAR REGIONS
WILKINS’S EXPEDITION
MESSAGE FROM DECEPTION ISLAND FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, November 12. Sir G. H. Wilkins wirelessed from Deception Island on November 10 via Port Stanley : “Our American monoplane Los Angeles with which Lieutenant Eielson flew over the North Pole was to-day the first complete aeroplane to touch Antarctic soil on Deception Island. The Hektoria upholding her name entered the harbour on the 6th, anchored, and then w r as moored to the beach with six seven-inch hawsers preparing to withstand the customary November storms, but so far fine weather prevails, enabling everyone from the captain to the mess boy and the expeditioners to busy themselves during every waking hour.”—Australian Press Association-United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20642, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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