Sir hubert wilkins biography of rory

Sir George Hubert Wilkins was an Australian explorer, scientist, and adventurer who imaginatively used scientific techniques in widely diverse conditions in the Australian bush, the Arctic , and the Antarctic. Three years' drought brought disease and starvation to his father's sheep and cattle and an abrupt end to George's education at the local school.

He gave ample and early evidence of his most remarkable personal energy, however, and displayed an extraordinary talent for improvisation. His interests, which were to expand still further as his curiosity about nature and humanity grew, spread to include music, botany, zoology, meteorology, geology, and particularly photography. He quickly became an inveterate and bold traveler.

In Wilkins arrived in England after an adventurous journey through the Mediterranean and Middle East as a stowaway. He lost no time in learning to navigate and fly both airplanes and dirigibles; and he established himself as a professional photographer, correspondent, and film editor.

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In he reported on the brutal Balkan War and the next year accompanied Vilhjalmur Stefansson 's expedition to the Arctic. During the next 3 years he laid the firm foundations of a distinguished record in the field of polar science and exploration. Wilkins served during World War I as an outstanding and intrepid pilot and aerial photographer.

Fascinated by polar exploration, and already an old hand, Wilkins seized the offer of a place in E. Shackleton's last expedition to the Antarctic, in The next year he spent in Europe and the Soviet Union as a photographer and relief worker for the Society of Friends. In he was appointed by the British Museum to lead a valuable and eventful two-year scientific expedition to northern Australia, the results of which he summarized in his book Undiscovered Australia.

By Wilkins had returned to his earlier project of flying in the Arctic, and his plans received the support and approval of the American Geographical Society.