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George Hubert Wilkins born at Mount Bryan East, S. Australia, Australia, youngest of 13 children of Harry Wilkins and Louisa Smith Wilkins.

Studied engineering at the Adelaide University and South Australian School of Mines.

Hired by the Gaumont Company of London as a cinematographer. Hired by the London Daily Chronicle as a reporter.

Learned to fly with the help of English flyer Claude Grahame-White

Sent to Constantinople by Gaumont Company to photograph and shoot movies of the Balkan War.

Hired by Vilhjalmur Stefansson as photographer on an expedition to the Arctic.

Traveled with Stefansson and eventually became second in command of the Canadian Arctic Expedition.

Enlisted in the Australian Flying Corps. Appointed Captain in Australian War Records Section, Australian Forces, France.

Second in command of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition.

Chief of the scientific staff and naturalist for the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition.

Hired by the Quakers, traveled to Russia and Eastern Europe to report on works of Society of Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee.

Commander of the Wilkins Australia and Islands Expedition, which was commissioned by the British Museum of Natural History to collect specimens of animals native to tropical northeastern Australia.

Commander of the Wilkins-Detroit Arctic Expeditions, during which Wilkins developed the first ski-landing gear for aircraft.

With pilot Ben Eielson, forced to crash land airplane in the Arctic.

With Eielson, made the first trans-Arctic airplane flight from Point Barrow, Alaska to Spitzbergen.

Knighted by King George V of England.

Wilkins and Eielson make the first 600 mile aerial reconnaissance flight over the Antarctic.

Passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin during its around the world trip. Reported on technical aspects of flight, sponsored by William Randolph Hearst.

Married Australian actress Suzanne Bennett.

Commanded Nautilus submarine expedition to the Arctic.

First of three expeditions to the Antarctic as second in command of the Ellsworth Arctic Expeditions. Wilkins was in charge of bases and the base ship Wyatt Earp.

Second expedition to the Antarctic as Ellsworth’s second in command.

Historic flight by Ellsworth and pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon from Dundee Island to Bay of Whales. Landed on December 15, met by Wilkins on board Wyatt Earp.

In charge of the Alaskan-Canadian search for the lost Soviet Polar Expedition, commanded by Sigismund Levanevsky.

Sent to Europe and Far East on special missions for the U.S. government.

Consultant for U.S. military, primarily in the areas of hot and cold weather clothing and survival techniques.

Nuclear submarine, USS Skate surfaced at North Pole and scattered Wilkins' ashes over the ice.