[Main Base hut at Cape Denison, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914] [picture] / Hurley

Bib ID:
3122285
Format:
Picture
Author:
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
Online Version:
National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Box PS 4907 #PIC/P808/169 copy
Description:
  • [1912]
  • 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; image 11.3 x 15.8 cm.
Series:
Sir Douglas Mawson collection of Antarctic photographs.
Summary:

Small group of penguins in front of the Main Base Hut at Cape Denison in February 1912 when first completed. A few days later the hut became so buried in packed snow that little more than the roof was to be seen.

Notes:
  • Part of collection: Sir Douglas Mawson collection of Antarctic photographs.
  • "Neg. H.540 (Hurley99)"--In pencil on verso.
  • Condition: Good.
  • PIC Box PS 4907 #PIC/P808/169 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141769614
  • Published in: Mawson Antarctic Diaries / edited by Fred Jacka and Eleanor Jacka. Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1988.
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This belongs to the Sir Douglas Mawson collection of Antarctic photographs.
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