WILKINS'S SILENCE
HEAVY WEATHER CAUSED INTERRUPTION CONSTANT DANGER FACED NEW YORK, Sunday. A copyright wireless message from Sir Hubert Wilkins says: Unprecedented weather in the Antarctic caused a cessation of our exploration work for this year. The William Scoresby's three weeks’ cruise through the ice-sea has been a period of constant danger and hardship. Frequently the ship plunged into ice-crested waves 20ft high. Unfa,vourable atmospheric conditions rendered wireless communication with Deception Island impossible.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 900, 18 February 1930, Page 9
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73WILKINS'S SILENCE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 900, 18 February 1930, Page 9
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