ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
WILKINS EXPEDITION 5200 MILES COVERED NEW YORK, June 7. The New York Times says the Board of Control of the Detroit Arclie Expedition (Captain G. 11. YYilkins) will meet to-morrow to decide the future plans of the expedition which has been temporarily checked. Captain YVilkins and Major Lanphier were ordered to return to Fairbanks, Alaska, from Point Barrow. Persistently foggy weather and the failure of the engines of the aeroplane, Delroiler, lo function satisfactorily made this move advisal.de. Neither the flights of Captain Amundsen nor Commander Byrd, heroic as they were, have in any sense impaired the plans of the Detroit expeditions. The board compliments Captain Wilkins on having already flown a tolal distance of 5:200 miles over trackless country. He lias thus equalled the entire mileage Jlown by Byrd and Amundsen together. The achievements of Captain Wilkins from the public's point of view have been unfortunately less spectacular than those of his rivals and there is a tendency to ieel that he has failed. This is not the case.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16818, 9 June 1926, Page 7
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172ARCTIC EXPLORATION. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16818, 9 June 1926, Page 7
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