Macquarie Island, looking down onto the South-East point penguin rookery, Mawson Expedition, approximately 1912 [picture] / Frank Hurley

Bib ID:
2387680
Format:
Picture
Author:
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
Online Version:
National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 10057 #PIC/21259/20 copy
Description:
  • between 1911 and 1913
  • 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 33.2 cm., on mount 50.2 x 40.2 cm.
Series:
Hurley collection of photographic prints.
Notes:
  • Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.
  • Condition: Creases.
  • Caption: "Macquarie Island, looking down onto the South-East point Penguin Rookery. One of the most remarkable congestions of bird life in Southern Seas, containing well over a million birds. It poses a problem as to how each bird finds its nest when coming home from the sea. Mawson Expedition 1911-13."--Lower left.
  • "With Shackleton to the Antarctic. Photography by Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation."--Printed on mount.
  • PIC Drawer PM 10057 #PIC/21259/20 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147387148
  • Also available as a negative: PIC FH/1041 LOC Cold store PIC HURL 67/5
  • Published in: The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian antarctic expedition, 1911-1914 / by Sir Douglas Mawson .... London : W. Heinemann, 1915. v. II, 1915, facing p. 244.
Subject:
Related Records:
two-level-child

This belongs to the Hurley collection of photographic prints.
This collection contains 235 records.

Copyright:

Request this item

Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.

Tools

Similar items

Explore