biography
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Wilkins, Sir George (Hubert)
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| lived:
| (1888–1958)
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| biography:
| Polar explorer and pioneer aviator, born at Mt Bryan East, South Australia. He was part of an expedition to the Arctic (1913–18), then flew from England to Australia (1919), explored the Antarctic with Shackleton (1921–2), and made a pioneer flight from Alaska to Spitsbergen over polar ice (1928). In 1931 he failed to reach the North Pole in the submarine Nautilus. He was knighted in 1928. |
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