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The East Greenland Expedition 2024 Receives Prestigious Award


 

The Gino Watkins Memorial Fund administered by a committee, appointed under the joint trusteeship of the University of Cambridge (Scott Polar Research Institute) and the Royal Geographical Society, has awarded £6,000 towards the expedition costs of The Mount East Greenland Expedition 2024. 

Gino Watkins in his kayak during the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland in 1930-31

This includes £1,000 that constitutes the annual Arctic Club Award that is given to just one of the expeditions that are successful in applying for the Gino Watkins Memorial Fund. This makes it the largest grant awarded by the Gino Watkins Memorial Fund to date.  

Nigel Bidgood, the East Greenland Expedition Chief Leader commented; “Gino Watkins is one of my heroes. An amazing man who led the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in 1930 to Greenland successfully pioneering the opening up of air routes across Greenland that not only featured in the movement of American aircraft to Europe in WW2 but in subsequent aviation routes post-war. The fact that The Mount School expedition has received the top award from the Gino Watkins Memorial Trust is a very proud moment indeed especially given that we have also been awarded the Arctic Club Award which is only given to one of the successful Gino Watkins Memorial Fund applicants each year.”  

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