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The Wrangell Sentinel
Wrangell, Alaska
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Rev. B. R. Hubbard departed from San Jose, California, this week for his eleventh Alaska expedition, a 'guinea pig trip' lasting eighteen months with $45,000 in equipment. The group will film Coast Guard activities in Bering Sea for five months, winter on King Island, conduct meteorological, medical, and ethnological studies until July 1938, then travel up the Yukon, returning in October 1938. He plans a 1940 return to explore land between Alaska and the North Pole.
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San Jose, Cal. -- The Rev. B. R. Hubbard left here this week for his eleventh Alaska expedition which he terms a "guinea pig trip." He declared the past ten trips have been in preparation for this one. He will be gone eighteen months and has equipment with him valued at $45,000. The first five months will be spent in filming the Coast Guard activities in Bering Sea.
The expedition will leave in September for King Island a bleak harborless rock in the Bering Sea which will be his base camp for the winter.
Winter. Meteorological, medical and ethnological studies will be made until July, next year. Then the party will travel up the Yukon by boat returning here in October, 1938.
The expedition leader declares that in 1940 he expects to return north to determine if there is land between Alaska and the North Pole.
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San Jose, Cal.
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The Rev. B. R. Hubbard left San Jose for his eleventh Alaska expedition, termed a 'guinea pig trip,' with past trips as preparation. He will be gone eighteen months with $45,000 equipment. First five months filming Coast Guard in Bering Sea. Leaves September for King Island base camp for winter. Meteorological, medical, and ethnological studies until July next year. Then travel up Yukon by boat, return October 1938. Plans 1940 return to check for land between Alaska and North Pole.