WILKINS'S POLAR PLANS
Wife to Accompany Explorer OUTLINE OF PROJECT NEW YOEK, Feb. 34. I . Sir Hubert Wilkins will return to! ■London where he is underwriting a sub--imarine Polar projeet himself at a cost' 'of 135,000 dollars. "That is probably why Lady Wilkins jwent to work without telling me," he istated. "She feels she is heiping to ! finance the trip and it is perfectly all1 'right with me. It is not as though I am ■here a great deal aud her working inter'fered with our home life." Lady Wilkins, w;ho admitted she is constantly nervous and on edge from 'having to praetice for concerts and then render dozens of songs nightly at a icabaret, declared that she is accomipanying her husband on his forthcomiug, itrip in June, 1938. Wilkins said he had a fivefold objec-, .tive, the principal of which was to; loeate the supposedly mythical Crokert iLand that Peary saw south of the North j JPole and north-west of Ellesmere Land.1 ;He will sail from Spitzbergen with a' •crew of seven besides his wife and' itravel several thousand miles beneath! Arctic floes. He is planning to stopj .briefly under the North Pole before com-! jing up somewhere along the Alaskan coast.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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