Sir Hubert Wilkins birth house in Mt Bryan East South Australia. Restored by Australian Geographic Society and Dick Smith grants. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Sir Hubert Wilkins birth house in Mt Bryan East South Australia. Restored by Australian Geographic Society and Dick Smith grants. / denisbin
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| 説明 | The early pastoralists in the area were those of the wider district and included the Hallett brothers who were based at Willogoleche near Hallett. At the foot of Mt Bryan a run of the same name was established by Joseph Gilbert of Pewsey Vale (and Gilberton) when he purchased leasehold land from the Hallett brothers in the late 1850s. He added more freehold land once the hundred was surveyed after 1869. Eventually this run was bought by Edmund and Charles Bowman (of Martindale Hall fame) in 1883 after the death of Joseph Gilbert. Within ten years they had sold out to members of the Angas family (of Angaston and Hill River outside of Clare), the largest landowners in the state. Other early pastoralists in this area included Chewings and Dare.The first farmers settled in the area after the hundred was surveyed in the mid 1870s. The focus of the district was the Mt Bryan East School which was established by 1884. About fifty families lived in the district by then. A Methodist Bible Christian Church was built in 1881 at a cost of £161 about one mile away from the school. Edward Gare a pastoralist was one of the trustees in the 1880s but he sold his Mt Bryan East property in 1891. A later church replaced the original church in 1913. The school finally closed in 1945 after the Second World War. The most famous student of the school was Sir George Hubert Wilkins. He revisited My Bryan East in 1938 and below is information taken from the entry about him in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. WILKINS, Sir GEORGE HUBERT (1888-1958), war correspondent and photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer, climatologist and aviator, was born on 31 October 1888 at Mount Bryan East, South Australia, thirteenth child of Henry Wilkins, farmer, and his wife Louisa, née Smith. As a child, George experienced the devastation caused by drought and developed an interest in climatic phenomena. Reared as a Methodist, he studied engineering part time at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries, then pursued interests in photography and cinematography in Adelaide and Sydney. In 1908 he sailed for England to work for the Gaumont Film Co. As a newspaper reporter and cameraman,. Photos of Mt Bryan East School and the Wilkins homestead.Wilkins visited different countries; he also learned to fly and experimented with aerial photography. As a war correspondent and photographer, in 1912 he covered the fighting between the Turks and Bulgarians. From 1913 to 1916 he was second-in-command on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition: Wilkins became adept in the art of survival in Polar Regions.Returning to Australia, on 1 May 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force (Australian Flying Corps). By August he had been transferred to the general list and was at Anzac Corps headquarters. Wilkins was awarded the Military Cross 'for bringing in some wounded men'. He entered the England to Australia air race in 1919, but his aircraft, a Blackburn Kangaroo, experienced engine failure and crash-landed in Crete; he arrived in Australia by sea in July 1920 and his A.I.F. appointment terminated. Engaging in further polar exploration, in 1920-21 he made his first visit to the Antarctic, accompanying J. L. Cope on his unsuccessful voyage to Graham Land. Wilkins next took part in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Quest expedition of 1921-22 on which he made ornithological observations. Wilkins's book, Undiscovered Australia (New York, 1929), showed the extent and quality of his work over two and a half years from 1923; in addition to mammals, the collections included plants, birds, insects, fish, minerals, fossils and Aboriginal artefacts. When a projected Antarctic expedition failed through lack of funds in 1926, he began a programme of Arctic exploration by air. The enterprise culminated in his great feat of air navigation: in April 1928, with Carl Ben Eielson as pilot, he flew from Point Barrow, Alaska, United States of America, eastward over the Arctic Sea to Spitsbergen (Svalbard), Norway. He was knighted in June, and awarded the Patron's medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London and the Samuel Finley Breese Morse medal of the American Geographical Society.His book, Flying the Arctic (New York, 1928), publicized the achievement. On 30 August 1929 in the registry office, Cleveland, Ohio, Wilkins married Suzanne Evans, an Australian-born actress known by her stage name 'Suzanne Bennett'. Though they were to remain childless, the marriage was a happy one and both parties pursued their own careers. Sir Hubert had carried out the first aerial explorations of the Antarctic in November 1928 and January 1929. In collaboration with Lincoln Ellsworth, he made four further expeditions (1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1938-39) to the Antarctic continent. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Meteorological Society (1923), Wilkins could be dismissive of conventional scientific method. He died suddenly in his hotel room at Framingham, Massachusetts, on 30 November 1958 and was cremated; four months later his ashes were scattered from the Skate at the North Pole. The home where he grew up is called “Wilkens” and is still standing and has been fully rebuilt and restored. We return to the bitumen and head north for Lancelot. |
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