Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: missing flyers; Point Barrow; Alaska; North Pole; aerial searching; Arctic weather; Soviet transpolar plane; Pacific Alaska Airway; George Hubert Wilkins; Coppermine; N. W. T.; Sigismund Levaneffsky; Fairbanks; Arctic coast; Vartanian; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Arctic; Pacific; Wilkins; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86115

Wilkins Crosses Pole: No Trace Found Of Missing Flyers. WILKINS CROSSES POLE No Trace Found of Missing Flyers BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 23.—(AP) — With one searching plane already reported over the North Pole, aerial searching forces from three nations stood ready tonight to battle Arctic weather in quest of the missing Soviet transpolar plane. Pacific Alaska Airways radio at Fairbanks reported intercepting message from Sir George Hubert Wilkins, noted explorer, saying he had flown over the North Pole in a Russian-owned seventeen-ton flying boat. Wilkins had left Coppermine, N. W. T., at 1 a. m. (Seattle time) to search the frozen icepack for traces of the vanished Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five companions. A Vartanian, Soviet representative at Fairbanks, said he was advised from the East that Wilkins flew across the North Pole to the eighty-third parallel before returning to the Arctic coast. "I am informed Wilkins saw no trace of the missing flyers," Vartanian disclosed.