The Model of the Seaplane That RESCUED Two Polar Explorers
Channel: National Oceanography Centre
Date: 2023-06-28

Lincoln Ellsworth, a US polar explorer, and Hollick Kenyon, a British pilot, became trapped on the Ross Ice Shelf after their attempted Transantarctic flight fell short due to fuel shortages in 1933.

As part of our National Oceanographic Library Archive Series, the University of Southampton's Emma Guest tells us the story of how a Gipsy Moth Seaplane came to the rescue, with help from a model of the plane.

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