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.. i WIRELESS FROM WILKINS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 9. Wilkins, in a wireless messago from Deception Island 'sayja ho 'made a. flight to ascertain whether the ice would form on the machine and also to examine the Island for landing fields. The temperature was two degrees below zero, ’but no ice formed on the machine. No suitable field for skis was found. Diu-ing an interval in the snow storms, he flew over Snow Island. When lie was alighting an enormous albatross smashed into the butt of the propeller. The bird bad a wing spread of ten feet. If it had struck the propeller tips or pilot’s windshield, a disaster would have been likely. Near the island edges were crevasses many hundreds of yards long and wide enough to engulf a plane. He must examine the island on foot, before using it as a base.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 5
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