Background
Wilkins, Hubert was born on October 31, 1888 in South Australia. Son of Harry and Louisa (Smith) Wilkins.
Wilkins, Hubert was born on October 31, 1888 in South Australia. Son of Harry and Louisa (Smith) Wilkins.
Educated Australian State school and Adelaide (South. Australia) School of Mines and Industries.
Employed as electrical engineer and meteorologist. Cine photographer and theater manager, 8 years. Second-in-command Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1914-1917.
Navigator England Australia flight, 1919.
Second-in-command British Imperial Antarctic Expedition, 1919-1920. Naturalist Shackleton “Quest Expedition,” 1921-1922.
Commander Australian Islands Expedition, 1922-1925. Commander Detroit Arctic Expeditions., 1925-1928, making 1st transport-arctic flight by airplane.
Commander Wilkins Hearst Expeditions. to Antarctic, making pioneer flight in Antarctica, discovering 5 new islands, more than 500 miles of coast line and several large glaciers, 1928-1930, Nautilus submarine expedition to Arctic, making pioneer submarine trip under Arctic ice, 1931.
Manager Ellsworth expeditions, Antarctica, 1932-1939. Commander Soviet search expedition for Levanevsky, covering 170,000 square miles never before seen by man, 1937-1938. Consultant to Military Planning Division, United States Army, 1942-1954, consultant to the United States Army Question Manager Research and Engineering Command, 1954-1957, United States Navy Office Science Research, 1946-1947, Weather Bureau, 1946-1948.
Councilor Arctic Institute of North.A., 1947.
Served as captain, Australian Flying Corps, 1917-1919. Member Royal Meteorological Society, Royal Geography Society, American Meteorological Society, Geophysical Union, Ornithologists Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Clubs: Explorers, Adventurers, Circumnavigators, Royal Societies, City (New New York
Married Suzanne Bennett, August 1929.