Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins

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Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins
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A Part of the Antarctic Continent Over Which Sir Hubert Wilkins Flew.  Photo Taken From Two Miles Altitude


Sir Hubert Wilkins and Members of His Second Antarctic Expedition on Board the Whaler William Scoresby

Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins
A few years ago there appeared a new planet in the explorer's firmament, and since then its course has been plotted and its weight and luminosity determined with scientific precision.  'Wilkins' is now a permanent figure in polar exploration. Such is the beginning of a long editorial in the New York Times of March 23, 1930, entitled The Work of Wilkins. Laudatory editorials of a similar nature appeared in hundreds of newspapers throughout the world, for the work of Wilkins during the last four years as a polar explorer has been foremost in its scientific achievements.


A FLYING SCIENTIST
Sir Hubert Wilkins Has Flown More Miles As An Explorer In The Polar Regions Than Any Other Living Man:

1.
In the Arctic over 15,000 Miles. 12,000 was north of the Arctic Circle, and more than 6,000 miles over the Arctic Ocean.
2.
In the Antarctic over 6,000 miles. This is more than twice as far as any other explorer has flown in the Antarctic.


These figures do not include test flights—only flights with a definite objective.

Sir Hubert Wilkins recently returned from his fourth Antarctic expedition and immediately announced plans for another expedition which will require nearly a year in preparation.  It will be a submarine expedition under the polar ice, from Spitzbergen to Alaska.  Sir Hubert is well acquainted with the north polar regions, having spent more than three years with Vilhjalmur Stefansson on his greatest expedition from 1913 to 1918, and having spent three other years in Arctic exploration work, culminating in the historic flight from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitzbergen in April, 1928, the flight that Amundsen declared to be the greatest airplane flight of history. Between the last two seasons in the Antarctic, he accompanied the Graf Zeppelin on its historic flight around the world in 1929.



FIVE FIRSTS
Since 1927 Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins has scored at least five firsts in airplane exploration:

1.
First trans-polar fiight by airplane.
2.
First landing of an airplane on floating polar ice.
3.
First trip ashore unaided from a forced landing on any ocean a long distance from land.
4.
First airplane flight in the Antarctic (Nov. 18, 1928).
5.
First discovery of new land from an airplane.




HAS HAD VARIED CAREER
Before becoming Sir Hubert, George H. Wilkins had a varied career as an engineer; a war photographer, having been the first to take motion pictures of front-line fighting from the air in the Balkan War, having explored large portions of the interior of his native country, Australia, and having made many flights over the front-line trenches in France during the World War.  The Commander-in-Chief of the Australian expeditionary forces, Sir John Monash, said of him at the end of the war that if he had to choose one man as bravest and most useful in the whole splendid force he commanded, he would have to select Wilkins.



PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF POLAR EXPLORATION
While on a limited American lecture tour, Sir Hubert will give a personal narrative of his experiences in exploring in the Arctic and Antarctic, the entire narrative being well illustrated with life motion pictures taken at the two ends of the earth and not heretofore shown in this country.  Many of these pictures show the heroic Ben Eielson, who was Sir Hubert's pilot in his Arctic work for three years and during the first year of his recent expedition to the Antarctic.  He will also tell of his plans for his sensational expedition across the north pole in a submarine, which may sound fantastic but when described by Wilkins becomes feasible and even reasonably safe.



SUBJECT:
Flying the Ends of the Earth




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O. B. Stephenson, President
Orchestra Building
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WEDNESDAY EVENING November 5

Dinner 6:00 P. M. — Main Dining Room 
Followed by Lecture 
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