CIVILISATION LEFT BEHIND BY WILKINS
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION [Australian Press Assn.—United Service 3 LONDON, Oct. 31. Sir George Wilkins cables from Port Stanley under date October 30: “Wo badc good-bye to civilisation when the Hoktoria to-day sailed from the Falkland Isles, the last port of call, towards the Antarctic’s scarcely charted serfs. The next landing point will bo Deception Island, on the northern edge of the unexplored ice continent, where we will go into the harbour to discharge our equipment, including aeroplanes, and will move on font into the wastes in order to establish our base, probably well within the Antarctic circle. All arc in splendid condition.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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