Arctic Aerial Exploration

EX19G7 Arctic Aerial Exploration

U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission home page

Polar projection map of the Arctic Ocean, centered on the North Pole, showing the route of two flights of pilot Carl Eielson and George Hubert Wilkins over the region. Their aborted March 1927 flight (and route followed by foot back to Alaska), and their more successful April 1928 flight from Point Barrow Alaska, to Dead Manïs Island in the Svalbard Group, near Spitsbergen, Norway, are shown.

Credits - National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI Neg A-31816-A, copyright holder: American Geographical Society)