https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures daily 0.75 2022-01-29 https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/formative-years monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625358772556-WQVLZDT4T9EZ4ESAOJXM/Balkans.jpeg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503018365-RPPMVPGBV78DUOXEXZQ9/A.jpg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - In one of his Gaumont assignments, Wilkins filmed this man, Percy Lambert, in his successful quest to the first man ever to travel 100 miles in one hour. 15 Feb 1913 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626502992170-T72DZZUF6EO78LCUN2IG/B.jpg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - This clumsy attempt to get on this balloon augured poorly for the stunt as a whole. Attemptingto fly to Hyde Park for a promotion, the balloon got caught up in winds floated out over the channel.c1912 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503023231-XGKEN7HCJCVC6293O7ZP/C.jpg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - A portrait of Teenage Bert Wilkins c1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503030842-ER203ZHKE3KM7D5QQOZL/G.jpg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - Bert Wilkins working the projector, probably in Sydney around 1910 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503398661-AGGOITLASNVTGQZLL3JF/F.jpg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - Make it stand out ‘Netfield’–the Wilkins family homestead. Not clear when this image was taken but possibly in the late 1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625358694930-GHA9UY6DVS9Y5M4RXFLP/Fruit.jpeg / Adventures / - Formative Years 1888-1913 - Make it stand out A shot taken while in Trinidad for the filming of a promotion for Cadbury Chocolates. c1912 https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/cae monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247536478-1VM6PYC6F9L1N0OPRWL9/J.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Scenes at a sandpit with a woman washing clothes. 13 August 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247538643-ZIC4EPOMIX2YHRZQDFAP/H.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Sinnisiak – Inuit man – 12 July 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247556863-PPETWUFHAMBV7C9QO0FC/D.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Expedition leader , Stefansson working at the typewriter. 1 January 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247556210-3NO5DQLM50NS1ENZ2KUD/G.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - A hare - lipped Inuit. 9 March 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247849273-7S2124INGD07FV71CHYZ/I.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Charlie Klinkeburg and hi s family. 26 July 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626247896136-PQF938R1XLJYOVHZ1TX4/E.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Scenes at a fishing creek. 20 July 1915 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625224035037-4OFVWVA0KWFEY2EXZIYR/tentpeople.jpeg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Make it stand out Unalina’s camp, Bernard Harbour. 5 July 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626163630762-ZA8YR36MJM5DF88VXTN7/A.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Make it stand out A whale boat cached on ice blocks. 20 May 1914 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626163824140-ZJJQ8FE0NEP6VP7VP4WE/B.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Make it stand out Oviuak, Atticia’s child. 10 July 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626163951964-DO0E3SYU517I7DKKMWOZ/C.jpg / Adventures / - Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1915 - Make it stand out The Alaska leaving Bernard Harbour. 13 July 1916 https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/thegreatwar monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803596753-KL65GV63PVVVYTXNXNK2/F.jpg / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out The futility of war is summed up these Australian soldiers attempting to advance this cannon through the mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803456714-3D9VBKSHGYFYCTX5M4D0/E.JPG / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out A dead German soldier lies before a tunnel captured by the Australian forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803179419-JMK7TPDQ6ASCI28V1PSL/B.JPG / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out The Menin Road turned up many confronting images, few more than this. The loss of horses was often especially felt by their carers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803350618-TPPA2HJC2A8CZSTPXDO6/C.JPG / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out Wilkins often reprised his daring first ever flight over enemy lines in the Balkan War in France and Belgium. Here he heads over Nissen huts towards the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803721594-EHM9TAZMC1YXXQW8K1MI/H.jpg / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out More captured loot – this time Australian soldiers enjoy cigars and other home comforts after capturing a German trench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803398762-WSAOZZVQMQFMLAPRO4U8/D.JPG / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out Soldiers at rest behind the lines enjoy whatever comfort and release they can find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803638491-OPOTT53WFFHTUA19N03B/G.jpg / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out A gunner uses a ruler to exemplify the size of this captured gun from the Germans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803784528-XDKWT9631CUGD3IMF6UC/I.jpg / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out Wilkins excelled at capturing irony – here a soldier commends those he has just buried to the Lord while standing before a ruined building no God should ever have allowed to be destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1625803244184-15YGDWB5FRZ78RAL14TE/A.jpg / Adventures / - The Great War 1916-1918 - Make it stand out It was typical of Wilkins to get close to the front lines. Behind these soldiers, the smoke at the rear of this image is the front where fighting is happening. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/new-hope-in-old-appalachia-xy4l6 monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1627180406170-0R8CQ6AJXDU421HJVVUR/B.jpg / Adventures / - The Great Race 1919 - Make it stand out A rare example of Wilkins looking to enhance his photos in the dark room. Here three images taken during the Great Race have been stitched together to complete this grand vista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1627180383794-X89Y7MIVZ62QIPZD4865/A.jpg / Adventures / - The Great Race 1919 - Make it stand out Stuck in the mud in France. May have been better perhaps to have stayed that way. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/shackleton-and-the-quest monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503664412-EJKSAH65DM4SPP3GTZGW/B.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Crew members make their way to the cairn they erected in honour of Sir Ernest Shackleton in the days after he died once reaching South Georgia Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503698364-XBB9V8YLH9F20P7U6NDA/C.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - A crew member, one who also served Shackleton on The Endurance pays his respect at the cairn erected in Shackleton’s honour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503719839-HL7B6ZC1GO8W5J034ZK1/D.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - The Boss, as he was affectionately known inspects the fish before heading off from London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503741005-E3XOZ2MGBJ2SBT1HVMY4/F.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - A South Georgia Island specimen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503854701-OJX1U79E5POPENF4689W/J.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - On the return trip, the Quest stopped over at Tristan de Cunha and this a photograph of a portion of the owning or controlling family of the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503753411-SZHFRETFOZDRKOHA6W7I/G.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503763800-424RD1V5T1O1VO5ZFDNP/J.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626503850912-2J3YVM8COX50VEY23ZM8/G.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - But for the quality of the remaining image, this most splendidly composed Antarctic scene, could have a great one of the Wilkins collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626133930793-QSAYS2I8X20RNQTQS9N2/A.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Make it stand out Shackleton and the ship’s surgeon, Alexander Macklin, discuss matters before departure from England. The collection of his images and those given to him by Wilkins were donated by the Macklin family to the State Library of New South Wales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151122965-3WM5DXAQ2E6DOAQ1X13U/H.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Make it stand out Living quarters on the Quest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626249222161-RKDVO1G4PL556WWX2TP6/E.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Make it stand out Shackleton pulled of a marketing stunt of genius when a newspaper promoted a competition to take a boy scout–to be chosen by none other than Lord Baden Powell himself–on the voyage. This young lad, James Marr, was one of two eventually chosen and who later went on to become a significant Polar explorer in his own right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151196807-CK69SSF59VDQYGU4F2K5/I.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Make it stand out The bow of the Quest hits heavy going in the Polar ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151257455-QWLHSV3YWCJ09JKPJGFE/K.jpg / Adventures / - Shackleton and the Quest 1920-1921 - Make it stand out The Quest struggling hard against the ice pack. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/russia monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151887409-H61JK5GBBBQS1UR6PELT/C.jpg / Adventures / - Russia 1922 - Make it stand out A child with tuberculosis receives milk at a hospital – still image from New Worlds For Old https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151516657-06XB6RA3E63CVOUCFTQ2/B.jpg / Adventures / - Russia 1922 - Make it stand out A postcard sent out by The Quakers to potential supporters. No sensitivities spared with the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626152023317-2A2HADJFDMKYKG3OWVES/D.jpg / Adventures / - Russia 1922 - Make it stand out A child receives medicine – probably Quinine - to ward off malaria. Still image from New Worlds For Old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626151945231-XRLGSLFHCKT9LOWR6WN3/A.jpg / Adventures / - Russia 1922 - Make it stand out The first page of The Quakers’ pitch for funds from potential donors in 1922. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/undiscovered-australia monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626152493658-Z1AZLLNIW9V8MS5PDRHG/D.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Make it stand out An Aboriginal elder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626152313274-CCXNQBOE0G5LA5Q77GHW/B.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Make it stand out One of the original maps used by Wilkins – in themselves a piece of art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504073907-4OGRWLAB9DB6M39955LZ/F.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - A spectacular view – note the man on the ledge, mid, upper north of image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504097021-NUO0R3GA49VYWQMJQ83B/G.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - A collection of mollusc fossils that were discovered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504102595-J87XE5PGNVRXO3M2XWL8/H.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - The original notated draft of the Introduction to Wilkins’ report that caused so much controversy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504104985-NES9JESAAEIJMST1HLHG/I.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Two First Nations men who Wilkins believed had attempted to attack him in his tent the previous evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626162555959-K661MUEG37N0GR1RHSY6/E.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Make it stand out Two members of the expedition inspecting fossils discovered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626152258180-VKGVA3W8IFZYB3J8PGY4/A.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Make it stand out Two First Nations women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626152395563-OU38X6SANRO5G9YZJHV9/C.jpg / Adventures / - Undiscovered Australia 1923-1925 - Make it stand out Specimens being identified and tagged by the discovering team late at night. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/antarctica-1920s monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504498076-0RV5QVIW0S6AXR0FE5CN/D.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Soot and sunlight on calm seas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504497169-2XR2WT6Z85IY2S0WXANF/E.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Hacking away at an ice overhang – often the pieces sheared off were after melting used for drinking water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504516887-N6YSB7DZPV6FN43UEBWH/F.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Wilkins on the crow’s nest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504515085-MITJ69PP2UZQYTMU2TXA/G.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Recording the local wildlife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504517955-LTP9LM5YQ5O7N460HX0E/H.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - The Vega held stable by the tripod? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504519594-8876AZKCKK3UD45MFKEX/I.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - One of the many vistas captured by Wilkins while in flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504521451-ZE839ABOVKQ8T2KPDNKM/J.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Wires, poles, ice and planes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504522707-ZFZHKXR4Y97QH9GNME8F/K.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Wilkins and friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504302029-PVMGEF0XTEOIZRQ0ZQKW/A.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Make it stand out ‘London Bridge’ in the Antarctic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504329744-0YN3ZDWZCM45Y7HVM94Y/B.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Make it stand out Getting the Vega into position for a sea take-off and landing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626504368952-1NPAO3X8OPV3FL76X6ZD/C.jpg / Adventures / - Antarctica 1920s - Make it stand out Loading up on the William Scoresby https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/arctic-1920s monthly 0.5 2021-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236003250-J3H3XM7PT53061AHYRUY/B.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - Make it stand out After completion of the momentous flight over the North Pole, the American Geographical Society awarded Wilkins its highest honour, the first time it had done so for 40 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626235930097-E47PYT27E3Z9RVYRPFJ5/A.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - Make it stand out One of the most popular images in the Wilkins collection. On the left is American flying icon, Amelia Earhart in front of the Lockheed hangar. Both Wilkins and Earhart used early Lockheed planes for their pioneering flights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236074348-68N75L9EUWJRPZB4A5EJ/D.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - Make it stand out On a day of disaster, both of the planes financed by the car barons of Detroit for the North Pole flight came down and were destroyed within 24 hours. Wilkins and Eielson dusted themselves off and on they went a few weeks later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236033743-PQDKYYHS7MIQ8TIW9O7W/C.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - Make it stand out The Lockheed Vega – Sir Hubert’s Bird of Paradise - on take-off, complete with skis fitted by Wilkins for snow and ice landings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236128859-KGM8OIKD4UKJTJIZZBIV/E.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - The race to the top was big news across the world. Here a report is covered in Wilkins’ home state in The Advertiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236136510-FOLECA9ZLWAM77CNW3ZW/F.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - A graphic setting out the rival parties for the race to the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236137351-REVDAPO00MWQ4S2UROU6/G.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - The introspective Ben Eielson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236145910-6XCAO0LI9SEPKIFCPYQO/H.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - Eielson and Wilkins together in front of one of the original Fokkers first used to get the North Pole expedition going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626236143976-W2G2G1XNO1DYTY0TPAIH/I.jpg / Adventures / - Arctic 1920s - The view of Arctic ice from one of the Fokkers. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/graf-zepplin monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935381957-Q6K915I40NPGLKYN46SX/B.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Make it stand out Dr Hugo Eckener, the protégé of the founder of the Zeppelins, centre, in the main cockpit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935425261-HK8WGGQFYW3MC0N4O94P/C.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Make it stand out Mucking around on the Jacob ladder before the flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935342700-AE72AVBAW3ZV0NVZDVTF/A.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Make it stand out The LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin at base in Friedrichshafen, Germany, before the round the world attempt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935505683-IBKLEYXABWRAGYJELLGU/D.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - The LZ 127 in its hangar. The minute figures around its base perhaps indicating just how large this air craft was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935505687-3283KHEEXJKAIPZ0LOUA/E.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Lady Fay Drummond Hay on her way up from inspecting an engine to the main gondola. By virtue of her participation on the voyage, she became the first woman to travel by air around the world https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935507808-40CNG5RQ98UJGPKM5NLP/F.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Some of the luxury provided on the voyage for the invited guests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935509538-R5NI0GOCT4V9BD7DO224/G.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Wilkins enjoying some grapefruit. Judging by the silverware around him on the table, no expense was spared for the journey that eventually took 21 days https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935512771-JUCYVJGSNN0XYMINTERK/H.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - The Zeppelin flies into Tokyo, no doubt a shock to citizens with little idea of the outside world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935514764-Q4XFJ22CPZD7ON8KRG1B/I.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - Japanese Navy personal help pull the Zeppelin into line for its entry into the hangar behind it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935517479-OM56N32JYQUY4D7OU9X2/J.jpg / Adventures / - Graf Zeppelin 1929 - In typical Hearst fashion, the arrival of Eckener and his airship ushered in a massive parade down 5th Avenue to celebrate the round the world flight record. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/voyage-of-the-nautilus monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936082014-7FCS5C7LPZTDMSB69FM3/E.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Stoic and stressed at the wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936082259-VCFIPRGG8SWUGZRHXOI3/F.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Wilkins in search of a solution to his many problems once he reached the Polar ice cap. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936084124-K8UJEN1G4GFE26HHFNV6/G.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - A sailor and ship separated by ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936085074-CNWSPXGBINQWMY9XQ16Z/H.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Alone on the bow surveying the abyss ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935870708-25U0WDY90M6LQTN7RGXM/A.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Make it stand out A stricken Nautilus in the calm of the Arctic ice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935947846-KH5AOMLWJD0NDJG42UYR/B.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Make it stand out Men on the bow and on the ice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626935970945-U2BLNVMMPXZ5Q65IXFLU/C.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Make it stand out The Nautilus makes it way between the floes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936004182-GJXXADZC0LQLVUF4LQ8J/D.jpg / Adventures / - Voyage of the Nautilus 1931 - Make it stand out A tooth being removed – not the worst discomfort experienced by this sailor on this voyage. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/antartica-1930s monthly 0.5 2022-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936467746-QDH7XO7TTEKSP1UC8SXH/A.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Ellsworth and friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936467041-17N0FM2UXR0I4IPNSPLK/B.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Ellsworth and more friends – perhaps his only friends by the end of the expeditions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936469664-5MK3LM0RJJKHUALZFDI7/C.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - While Wilkins was gradually losing his eye for great images, certainly his passion for seeking new and exciting angles out, this is a very special image of the Antarctic coastline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936471319-ZB3X2A1G4CZPM87EUIPX/D.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - A top looking down on the way ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936473219-23QEBMZ90IDZ3HU5BZ0J/E.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Formidable ice ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936474882-8MWQDUKAJ0YS7H6CLBGP/F.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Levering the plane that Ellsworth would use for his assault on the South Pole itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936478674-FMHCQM1VT87KPWI3VPXN/G.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Back in the ice, back stuck in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936481062-9264ILL3C96H2I2XHK67/H.jpg / Adventures / - Antartica & the 1930s - Wilkins shares a beer with old friends. https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/adventures/latter-years monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936904134-5FI0U2M94VEAQD3K6T7D/A.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - A US army serviceman after trying out the Wilkins designed clothing in freezing cold water for 30 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936907243-W5KSVPJZ31EPIW2IHO85/B.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - Sir Hubert with another acclaimed Polar explorer, Bernt Balchen and friends https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936908413-3QWWYZYJXYL3V4034TOV/C.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - On the speaking circuit, one that saved Wilkins financially. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936910543-IDC3FG7AIXJ0NQL11YD2/D.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - Wilkins with Suzanne receiving honours from the Ford family in the early 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936910781-V64PVSTKFPNGKD8Y53MR/E.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - Wilkins on receiving his Honorary degree from the University of Alaska in 1955. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936912282-KL0N1IDQWQVFSUCD8QQT/F.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - After the War, Suzanne tried her hand at painting and this was one of the results when Sir Hubert was the subject. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936913840-RYHJ1HU5LSISC2WRQ0Z9/G.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - A rare shot of Hubert and Suzanne together at their home in Pennsylvania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936914829-AVL7GKDA2GV6DSHPDXVQ/H.jpg / Adventures / - Latter years 1940-1958 - Sir Hubert and Admiral James Calvert together in the last year of his life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1626936917328-SHP0CBG36XE4TDLAA3E1/I.jpg / Adventures / - 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The Eye of Wilkins is a landmark book about Sir Hubert Wilkins, as it brings together, for the first time, a complete retrospective of the great man’s photographic work. Wilkins has been lionised for many things but this collection, brought together after more than two years of searching across the world by writer and editor, Peter Maddern, seeks to add ‘great photographer’ to his list of extraordinary achievements. Sample the book below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/1628752331375-Z679VLQLMNJ6T6R2K27R/The+eye+of+wilkins+poster.jpg The Eye of Wilkins - For the first time, all the best photos and films of Sir Hubert Wilkins have been brought together in one stirring documentary. Premiered at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe, The Eye of Wilkins sold out twice over, thrilling audiences and critics alike. The Barefoot Review called it “A great film” while The Canberra Times opined it was “Gripping, fascinating and vitally significant.” Now The Eye of Wilkins is available to be streamed. Whether you are well versed in the Wilkins story or new to it, The Eye of Wilkins is simply compelling and a must see. View the documentary below https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/flyer daily 0.75 2023-12-10 https://www.wilkinstheadventurer.com.au/shop daily 0.75 2023-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60deec7400e24755847d3167/eb8a5712-4b64-41ee-aeef-c46215c099ee/TAT-HardCover-Final.jpg Shop - True Adventure Thrills For the first time, Sir Hubert Wilkins’s 56 episode outline for a radio series is now available for purchase. The series may never have been produced but, thanks to a faithful and arduous transcription over the past couple of years, all his ripping yarns will now survive. Starting with stowing away from Adelaide, to fighting off a polar bear, flying over enemy lines in a balloon to finally how Eielson and he landed at the end of their epic trans-Arctic flight, it is all there. Pure Wilkins by Wilkins. Just 400 physical copies are being printed and they are available for ordering now for delivery in the first full week of November. 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