2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Antarctica—Wings Over the Continent:From Wilkins to War
verfasst von : Robert Clancy, John Manning, Hank Brolsma
Erschienen in: Mapping Antarctica
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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On December 20, 1928 Hubert Wilkins with Ben Eielson took off from a roughlyfashioned airstrip on Deception Island to fly southeast across Bransfield Strait andclimb above the Graham Land plateau and then south to a latitude of 71_200S,and in his words ‘‘to realize that for the first time human eyes—our eyes—weregoing to see it—for the first time in history new land was being discovered fromthe air.’’ Exploration in Antarctica was changed forever