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| Picture No | 10731397 |
| Date | 1935 |
| Description | Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot's trans-Antarctica flight |
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Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, loading supplies into the "Polar Star", before the flight of the 2000 miles from Dundee Island 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.
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| Source | Photograph in Supplement in The Illustrated London News 25 January 1936 page 139 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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