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...portable houses, scientific baggage, and a season's supply of provender. Commander Byrd will set up his base on the Bay of Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Lockeed Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, Calif. / Vega Passenger / .$14,000-$21,000 / Used by Wilkins for his North Polar flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, 13, sent $10 and the following letter to Polar Pilgrim Richard Evelyn Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Capt. Amundsen set out on June 18 to rescue Gen. Umberto Nobile, Italian Polar Pilgrim, whom he thoroughly detested. Gen. Nobile, saved by others, was reported last week at Milan and later at Rome to be suffering a high fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pontoon | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Rome, Polar Pilgrim Umberto Nobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cold, cold, hot! | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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