WILKINS REACHES DECEPTION ISLAND
FIRST COMPLETE AIRPLANE TOUCHES ANTARCTIC SOIL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Sir Hubert Wilkins wirelessed from Deception Island on November 10, via Port Stanley, in the Falkland Islands. His message begins: “Our American monoplane Dos Angeles, In which Eielson and I flew over the North Pole, was to-day the first' complete airplane to touch Antarctic soils at Deception Island. “The Hektoria, upholding her name, entered the harbour on the sixth, and was anchored and then moored to the beach, with six 7in. hawsers, preparing to withstand the customary November storms; but the fine weather prevails, enabling everyone from captain to messboy to busy himself in every waking hour.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 13
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