Polar Expedition to Plot Air Route to Canada

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 15, 24 October 1930, Page 7

Polar Expedition to Plot Air Route to Canada

"A FEW weeks ago the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition sailed from London for Arctic seas in Shackleton’s historic ship, the "Quest." The venture has for its object the investigation of an all-British air-route across the Arctic regions from Britain to Canada. A little band of fourteen men comprise the party, including among their number surveyors, aeroplane pilots, wireless operators, geologists, and other experts. The equipment is remarkably complete, including aeroplanes, motor-cars, and sledges, and the most perfect of scientific instruments for surveying purposes. The latest types of radio transmitting and receiving apparatus have also been ineluded for maintaining communication not only between the various smal parties and their base camps, but also with the outside world. For the latter purpose, a hundred watt, short-wave transmitter will be used. The difficulty of battery-charging has been surmounted by the inciusion in the equipment of specially-designed wind-driven chargers.