George Wilkins collection 1921-1935

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Wilkins, George Hubert, Sir, 1888-1958

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Sir George Hubert Wilkins (b. October 31, 1888, Hallett, South Australia-d. November 30, 1958, Framingham, Massachusetts), polar explorer, geographer, photographer, and consultant for the United States Military. He was internationally recognized for his expeditions to the Arctic and Anarctic from 1913 to 1939. Wiklins was the navigator aboard the first airplane to fly over the Arctic Sea (1928); navigator aboard the first airplane to fly over the Antarctica (1933); and led the Nautilus sub...

Arctic Flight 1926-1928

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Ellsworth Antarctic Expedition 1935-1936

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Eielson, Carl Benjamin, 1897-1929

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Aviator. From the description of Papers, 1919-1930. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17732861 Arctic aviator from Hatton, N.D. Died in Siberia, Soviet Union. From the description of Collection of papers, 1924-1986. (North Dakota State University Library). WorldCat record id: 28470592 ...

Lester Maxime Charles 1891-1957

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Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921-1922

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British Expedition to Graham Land 1920-1922

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George Hubert Wilkins

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George Hubert Wilkins was born in Australia on 31 October 1888. After training at the State School and School of Mines in Adelaide, he reached Europe as a stowaway and spent four years wandering in Europe and America, eventually serving as an official photographer to the Turkish army during the Balkan war of 1912. In 1913, he joined Vilhjalmur Stefansson's expedition to the Canadian Arctic spending three years in the field as photographer and correspondent for the London Times. Retu...

Wilkins-Herst Antarctic Expedition 1928-1929

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Bagshawe Thomas Wyatt 1901-1976

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Cope John Lachlan 1893-1947

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Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951

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Lincoln Ellsworth (b. May 12, 1880, Chicago, Illinois-d. May 26, 1951, New York City), American explorer, engineer, and scientist. Ellsworth led the first trans-Arctic (1926) and trans-Antarctic (1935) air crossings. He first attempted to fly over the North Pole in 1925 with Roald Amundsen. Their planes were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface. In 1926, Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in th...