ocr: Search Word Search 86R pert Browse Title Index 98B Browse Word Index 96WU Browse Picture Index 961 2 pages Wilkins, Sir GI Browse Map Index 98M George Hubert Search for selection 96F ec. 1, 1958, was an Australian exp to selection 86L the use of the airplane and submarinen Hyperlink PVIT GAPTUTutTonr uccarliest expeditions took him to the Arctic with Vilhjaimur stefansson (1913-16) and the ANTARCTIC with Sir Ernest Shackleton 1920-22). In April 1928 Wilkins and Carl B. Eilson made the first trans-Arctic airplane flight over unknown territory; Wilkins was knighted for this feat. Later in 1928 W ...