Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations
Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (right), his pilot, making preparations for their trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star, flying 2000 miles across the Antarctic to the Bay of Whales, on the Ross Sea. The Antarctic flight stopped prematurely, due to fuel shortages, and had to be rescued by British Royal research ship Discovery II, they were found after seven weeks, 420 miles away, at Little America
Picture No
10731394
Media ID
46097556
Size
5789px x 3176px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in Supplement in The Illustrated London News 25 January 1936
Date
1935
