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...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
When Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins arrived in Manhattan from the Antarctic two months ago, he made the same announcement to newsgatherers that he has been making regularly for the past ten years: that he intends to make a submarine journey from Spitsbergen, via the North Pole, to Point Barrow, Alaska...
Wilkins thinks that, cruising at three knots, he could make the trip from Spitsbergen to Alaska in about 50 days...
Previous Wilkins accomplishments which make his polar submarine trip seem not incredible: extended exploration work in north polar regions with Vilhjalmur ("No Vegetables!") Stefansson, exploration of tropical Australia for the British Museum, flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen with the late Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, 6,000 mi. of flying in south polar regions...
...Eielson and Wilkins made their astounding air way across the Arctic from Point Barrow eastward to Spitsbergen, across converging lines of longitude, through shifting fields of terrestrial magnetism-at 135 m.p.h. The late Roald Amundsen, with Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, beat them to the first Arctic air crossing by sailing the semirigid dirigible Norge from Spitsbergen westward across the North Pole to Nome, Alaska. Amundsen was killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson...