Hubert Wilkins

Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC amp Bar was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer.

Hubert Wilkins was a native of Hallett, South Australia, the last ofchildren in a family of pioneer settlers and sheep farmers. He was born at Mount Bryan, South Australia, 177 kilometres north of Adelaide by road. The original homestead has been restored by generous donation. He studied at the Adelaide School of Mines. As a teenager, he moved to Adelaide where he found work with a traveling cinema, to Sydney as a cinematographer, and thence to England where he became a pioneering aerial photographer whilst working for Gaumont Studios. His photographic skill earned him a place on various Arctic expeditions, including the controversial 1913 Vilhjalmur Stefanssonled Canadian Arctic Expedition.

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