ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
FRESH EXPEDITION UNDER WILKINS.
(BT CABLI —PKZSS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGIIT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
NEW YORK, January 6.
Plans for a second polar expedition under Captain Wilkins are announced by Hugh Grant, a former British Naval officer, who is co-operating in the reorganised Detroit Arctic Expedition.
Captain Wilkins and his party will leave Seattle on February 12th for Fairbanks, in Alaska. Three aeroplanes will be used to search for land in the Arctic ice pack. A base will be established at Point Barrow, and meteorological records will be kept. Captain Wilkins believes tho Arctic weather has a direct bearing on the unsolved meteorological problems of the tompcrate and the tropical zones.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 9
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