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	Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir George Hubert Wilkins was born at Mt. Bryan East, South Australia, on October 31, 1888.
		From early on, Sir Hubert Wilkins was interested in polar exploration, both by airplane and submarine, and the establishment of weather stations in the polar regions.
		From 1921-1922, Wilkins was chief of the scientific staff and naturalist for the Sir Ernest Shackleton Quest Antarctic Expedition.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/polar/wilkins/wilkins.htm (856 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Hubert Wilkins
		Wilkins was presented with the Military Cross for his efforts to rescue wounded soldiers in the Third Battle of Ypres, where at Passchendaele allied forces suffered a quarter million casualties.
		Wilkins received the Patrons Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Morse Medal of the American Geographical Society and a knighthood from the King of England.
		Wilkins died of a heart attack at the age of 70, in 1958.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000106.htm (3072 words)

	Wilkins, Sir George Hubert on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Valuable experience gained when he accompanied Vilhjalmur Stefansson's expedition (1913-18) to the Arctic and Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition (1921-22) to Antarctica prepared Wilkins to assume the leadership in the following years of a number of polar expeditions.
		A pioneer in the method of air exploration, he was the first to fly (1928) from North America to the European polar regions, traveling from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen; his Flying the Arctic (1928) described his observations during the flights.
		During World War II and afterward, Wilkins served as a geographer for the British army.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/WilkinsG1H1.asp (311 words)

	sir hubert wilkins, george hubert wilkins, arctic explorer, antarctic explorer, pioneer aviator, war photographer
		This site is an outline and pictorial gallery of Sir Hubert Wilkins' childhood and youth in South Australia between 1888 and 1909.
		The images have been collected to try to provide a "Sir Hubert's-eye view" of the South Australia he knew between his birth in 1888 and the time he left for foriegn parts in 1909.
		If you share my interest in the subject of Sir Hubert Wilkins and want to communicate, if you have any information about any of the aspects of his life covered here that I haven't already dug up....
	users.chariot.net.au /~lenshome/ghw/ghw_mainpage.htm (461 words)

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