EST SELLING AUTHOR Peter FitzSimons, in his 2021 biography of Sir Hubert Wilkins, describes his subject as Australia’s greatest explorer. However, Wilkins’ name – which has so many “firsts” attached to it – is not as well known as it should be. His extraordinary adventures included the first crewed plane flights across both Antarctica and the Arctic, and the first person to pilot a submarine under the Arctic pack ice. He
