Northwest History. Alaska. Explorers, Exploration & Discoveries.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1926
• Subjects: Arctic; Detroit expedition; Fairbanks; Alaska; Captain George H. Wilkins; Australian explorer; Carl B. Eielson; the arctic ice; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Detroit; Eielson; Pacific; Wilkins
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91104

To Hunt Land In Arctic: Wilkins, Who Led Detroit Expedition, To Resume Quest. TO HUNT LAND IN ARCTIC Wllkins, WTio I,ed Detroit Expedition, to Resume Quest. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 08. (/P) —Friends of Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian explorer, who led the Detroit arctic expedition last winter and spring, were advised here tonight that he will soon return north to resume a quest for land in the arctic. Wllkins, who is at Detroit, is to he accompanied to Fairbanks by Carl B. Elelson, an aviator of this place, who piloted one of two planes used by the Detroit expedition. In the first attempt, a flight was mads 150 miles north of Alaska over the arctic "tout sighting land.