AIR LINE OVER THE ARCTIC
BRITAIN TO CANADA ROUTE. EXPLORERS PREPARE THE WAY. By .'Telegraph—Preus Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5.5 p-’m. London, June 7. Fourteen explorers will leave on July $ in Shackleton’s old ship the Quest to survey the Greenland ice cap with the object of establishing an air route between Britain and Canada. The expedition will be under the. leader ship of Mt. H. G. Watkins. When the route is surveyed an experimental flight will be made from England to Winnipeg and back, via Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Baffin Land €nd Hudson’s Bay. .■J. •- > ’ i l
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1930, Page 9
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