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Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers???explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying the Antarctic | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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