Record ID:
36366262 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 82252037
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18881031
  • Mount Bryan (S.A.)
Death:
  • 19581130
  • Framingham (Mass.)
Associated with:
  • Australia United States
Fields of activity:
  • Arctic regions Meteorology
Occupations:
  • Explorers Air pilots
Used for:
  • Wilkins, G. H. (George Hubert,), Sir, 1888-1958
  • Wilkins, Geo. H. (George Hubert,), Sir, 1888-1958
  • Wilkins, George Hubert,, Sir, 1888-1958
  • Wilkins, Hubert,, Sir, 1888-1958
  • Wilkins, George H. (George Hubert), 1888-1958
Notes:
  • Undiscovered Australia, 1928: title page (Capt. Sir G.H. Wilkins)
  • Sherman, H.M. Thoughts through space, 1983: t.p. (Sir Hubert Wilkins)
  • LC manual cat. (hdg.: Wilkins, Sir George Hubert, 1888-1958; usage: G.H. Wilkins; Sir George H. Wilkins; Sir Hubert Wilkins)
  • nuc89-103908: Australian war photographs [MI] 1919 (usage on NN rept.: Geo. H. Wilkins)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 24 May 2019: (Sir George Hubert Wilkins (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. In 1908 he sailed for England to work for the Gaumont Film Co., worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer, and took part in arctic expeditions. Returning to Australia, on 1 May 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant, and appointed official photographer in April 1918, he was tasked with providing 'an accurate and complete record of the fighting and other activities of the A.I.F.'. His commission was terminated in 1920. He took part in Antarctic expeditions, and was commissioned by the British Museum to collect native fauna in northern Australia. He undertook artic exploration trips by air. He was knighted in June 1928, 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. In World War II he carried out work of United States agencies. His strength was as a field explorer rather than a follower of scientific method. He died suddenly on 30 November 1958 in Framingham, Massachusetts.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wilkins-sir-george-hubert-9099
Local system number:
  • 000001373547
  • abv03621248
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX34084
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC InU VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc