ISLANDS SURVEYED
Use by America as Air-Line Bases
WATER LACKING (Received 19, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Dr. Dana Coman, Rear-Admiral Byrd's assoCiate, has completed a survey of Baker and Howland Islands in order to determine methods of bringing them under full vegetation in the interests of the water supply. Anothei feature of the survey is to make adequate airway landings on the islands. He states that the water supply problecn will take a decade and possibly a , generation, Hawaiian boys may have a concrete runway ready at Howland Island by the time Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam ' arrives. It will be a great f eat of navi- ' gation if she suceeeds in finding the ■ island which is 1400 miles from Hono1 lulu and visibility is extremdly limited owing to the lowness of the island • whieh ia barely 20 feet above the sea. ■ He believes, however, with noraial , luck, she should succeed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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