Hubert Wilkins
Australian Navigator and Polar Explorer
Wilkins the Cinematographer (ca. 1911)
Wilkins Just After His Coverage of the Balkan Wars (1912)
Wilkins During Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-17
Photo Taken By Wilkins of Stefansson During Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-17
Wilkins Showing Movies to Indigenous People in the Arctic in December 1913
Second-Lieutenant Hubert Wilkins (right) Photographing Fighting on the Western Front During World War I (October 1918)
Photo Taken of the Battlefield By Wilkins On the Western Front During World War I
A Blackburn “Kangaroo” Long-Range Bomber. Wilkins Served as Navigator Aboard a Kangaroo in the “Great Race” Between England and Australia in 1919
Wilkins’ “Kangaroo” Plane Crash at Mental Institution on the Greek Island of Crete During the “Great Race” of 1919
Hubert Wilkins Aboard the Quest in 1920
Photo Taken By Wilkins of the Crew of the Quest Next to the Cairn They Built Commemorating their Leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton at the Whaling Station at Grytviken, South Georgia (April 1922)
Wilkins in Northern Australia On Expedition for the British Museum (ca 1924)
Carl Ben Eielson, Wilkins’ Flying Buddy
Carl Ben Eielson
The Wreckage of the Fokker Detroiter in Alaska in 1926
The Single-Engine Fokker Alaskan at Barrow in 1926
The Wreckage of the Alaskan, which Crashed the Day After the Detroiter Crashed in 1926
A Stinson Detroiter SB-1 Biplane - Similar to One Flown By Wilkins & Eielson During their Historic 1927 Flights From Barrow, Alaska, Over the Arctic Ocean
The Lockheed Vega that Wilkins and Eielson Flew On their Historic First Trans-Arctic Flight From North Alaska to Spitsbergen in 1928
In Wilkins’ and Eielson’s Trans-Arctic Flight of 1928, they Became the First to Fly Across the Arctic, from Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen
Wilkins and Eielson Return From Their Historic Trans-Arctic Flight of 1928
Wilkins and Eielson Before Departure on Deception Island on Their First Antarctic Flight (1928)
Hubert Wilkins in 1928. Hubert Sent This Photo to Suzanne Shortly After They First Met; it Reads, “I have my eyes on you”
The Graf Zeppelin
Wilkins (Behind Wine Bottle) Aboard the Graf Zeppelin on Its Historic Round-the-World Flight in 1929
Ticker-Tape Parade in New York City After Graf Zeppelin Trip
In 1928, Wilkins and Eielson Flew Round-Trip From Deception Island to the Ross Ice Shelf
Map of Deception Island
In 1936, Wilkins Traveled Aboard the Hindenburg On Its Maiden Voyage From Germany to the United States
Wilkins In His Cramped Quarters Aboard the Nautilus Submarine
The Crippled Nautilus Without Its Rudders
Wilkins Aboard the Crippled Nautilus
Wilkins Refueling His Soviet-Built Catalina During His Search For Missing Russian Flyers In the Arctic Ocean in 1937
Hubert Wilkins in His Sixties
Wilkins Visiting Commander James Calvert Aboard the Nuclear-Powered USS Skate Shortly Before Hubert’s Death in 1959
The USS Skate Surfacing at the North Pole on March 17. 1959. Hubert Wilkins’ Ashes Were Aboard the USS Skate and, per Hubert’s Wishes, Scattered At the North Pole.
Suzanne Wilkins, Hubert’s Wife
Hubert and Suzanne in the early 1930s
Hubert’s Parents, Harry Wilkins and Louisa Smith