SIR HUBERT WILKINS (1888-1958) was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer who gained international renown for his pioneering flights in the Arctic and Antarctic.
On 15 April 1928, Wilkins and co-navigator Ben Eielson made a historic trans-Arctic crossing from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway. For this feat and his prior work in exploration, Wilkins was knighted.
“Wilkins was a two-sided individual: the man the world knew, and the man who only his most intimate friends knew. He had a deeply spiritual side in the broadest possible cosmic sense. He had inner experiences that he confided to scarcely anyone.”
—Harold Sherman, close friend and co-author of Thoughts Through Space
“Those of us who go to the far corners of the earth cannot help but be God-conscious.... And when we travel in the lonely, desolate spaces of the polar regions we have time for contemplation. There we feel conscious of the greatness of God....”
—Sir Hubert Wilkins, 1938
SIR HUBERT WILKINS (1888-1958) was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer who gained international renown for his pioneering flights in the Arctic and Antarctic. On 15 April 1928, Wilkins and co-navigator Ben Eielson made a historic trans-Arctic crossing from Point Barrow, Alaska, to Spitsbergen, Norway. For this feat and his prior work in exploration, Wilkins was knighted.
“Wilkins was a two-sided individual: the man the world knew, and the man who only his most intimate friends knew. He had a deeply spiritual side in the broadest possible cosmic sense. He had inner experiences that he confided to scarcely anyone.”
—Harold Sherman, close friend and co-author of Thoughts Through Space
“Those of us who go to the far corners of the earth cannot help but be God-conscious.... And when we travel in the lonely, desolate spaces of the polar regions we have time for contemplation. There we feel conscious of the greatness of God....”
—Sir Hubert Wilkins, 1938