IN ANTARCTICA
SIR 11. WILKINS’S REPORT. (By Telegraph —Press Association). DECEPTION ISLAND, Dec. 18. Our seaplane, fully loaded, is lying at anchor ready to start at a moment’s notice on the hoped-for adventure. A watch was kept from a hill at the harbour mouth, but drifting ice entering the Bay ruined any chance of taking off for however short a flight, iiu the plane, San Francisco, which is now fitted with wheels, in the course of which we climbed (5,000 feet for a hundred miles, which revealed as far as the eye could see, the clouds unbroken. It is useless to proceed under present conditions, but the indications are for an improvement.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 5
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112IN ANTARCTICA Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 5
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