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Henry George "Gino" Watkins FRGS was a British Arctic explorer and nephew of Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell.
Gino Watkins
Memorial to Gino Watkins at St Peter's Church, Dumbleton in Gloucestershire
The 1932–33 East Greenland Expedition, subtitled the Pan Am expedition by some sources, was a small expedition to Greenland led by Henry "Gino" Watkins until his death, and then by John Rymill. The ex
Gino Watkins
…but in the depths of the Great Depression, finance proved impossible to raise. Instead, he returned to Greenland in 1932 with a small team on the East Greenland Expedition to continue the work of his air route expedition. On 20 August, he went hunting for seals in his kayak in Tuttilik (Tugtilik Fjord) and did not return…
The 1932–33 East Greenland expedition led to the death of Gino Watkins. His remains were never found, but there is a memorial to this ill-fated Arctic explorer in St Peter's Church in Dumbleton, UK