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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Capt. Wilkins' Antarctic flight proves Graham Island is separated from the Polar Continent by an ice-filled channel, resolving a long-standing geographical puzzle.
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Finds, in Flight, Graham Island Is Separated from Continent
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The New York American, in a copyrighted dispatch from Capt. George H. Wilkins at Deception Island in the Antarctic, says he has solved the problem which has baffled geographers for many years, proving that Graham Island is separate from the Polar Continent by an ice-filled channel. Geographers had thought the island's mountains extended without interruption into the heart of the continent. Capt. Wilkins made a flight in the monoplane San Francisco, piloted by Ben Eielson, Alaskan aviator, over the volcanic mountains of Graham Island.
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Graham Island, Antarctic
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solved the problem of whether graham island is separate from the polar continent, proving it is separated by an ice-filled channel.
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Capt. Wilkins made a flight in the monoplane San Francisco, piloted by Ben Eielson, over the volcanic mountains of Graham Island, solving the geographical problem that had baffled geographers for many years. Geographers had thought the island's mountains extended without interruption into the heart of the continent.