Plane at Fort Resolution, Mackenzie River
During her Alaskan-Canadian Arctic travels in 1933-34 the Scottish botanist-explorer Isobel Wylie Hutchison made use of air-transport on two legs of the journey: firstly, from Fairbanks westwards to Nome by Pacific-Alaska Airways; and secondly, from Aklavik southwards to McMurray by Canadian Airways. She had previously only once travelled by plane, and that was merely on a brief fifteen minute flight, compared with these lengthy journeys of several days each. Neither plane had a conventional undercarriage: the first was a pontoon plane with floats for landing on water, while the second had skis for landing on snow or ice. Here we see the second plane at Fort Resolution on the Mackenzie River.
