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Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an...
Wilkins. Another glad runaway from Antarctica last week was Sir George Hubert Wilkins. He and Pilot S. A. Cheesman made a few observation flights in the neighborhood of Deception Island this season. As they approached Montevideo, Uruguay, aboard the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen last week, they loosed a small seaplane...
Last week in Manhattan, Bennington College sponsors, with more than $1,000,000 pledged, planned to precipitate the last $1,500,000 drive. They hoped to break ground for the buildings in May, start operating with no freshmen in September 1931. Invited to preside was the Hon. John William Davis...
The map further shows the ship and airplane routes of the four parties who have worked around the continent the past two winters: 1) Byrd Antarctic Expedition at the Ross Sea; 2) Wilkins-Hearst Expedition (Sir George Hubert Wilkins) at the Weddell Sea; 3) British- Australian-New Zealand and Antarctic...
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...