Unloading aircraft for George H. Wilkins expedition, Seattle, 1926

• Main Author: Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Aircraft > Washington (State) > Seattle; Cargo ships > Washington (State) > Seattle; Arctic; Antarctic; Svalbard; Norway; Byrd; Detroit; Wilkins; Eielson; Antarc*; Barrow; Byrd Polar Research; Byrd Polar Research Center; Point Barrow; Spitzbergen; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/767

Australian explorer and aviator, George H. Wilkins, spent his lifetime involved in or leading arctic and antarctic expeditions. From 1926 to 1928, he and Ben Eielson attempted three times to fly across the arctic from Point Barrow, Alaska to Svalbard (Spitzbergen), Norway. The expeditions were spons...