An incident in March soon after completion of the hut, Hodgeman, the night watchman returning from his rounds outside pushes his way into the veranda through the rapidly accumulating drift snow, Adelie Land [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914] [picture] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [between 1911 and 1912] 1911
• Subjects: Hodgeman; A. J. (Alfred James) > Portraits; Australasian Antarctic Expedition; (1911-1914) > Photographs; Snow > Antarctica > Adelie Coast > Photographs; Adelie Coast (Antarctica) > Photographs; Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Wakefield; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23323351

The identity of the person in the photograph is uncertain as he has been identified as Mertz in one publication and Hodgeman in another publication.; Part of the John George Hunter collection of photographs, 1911-1914.; Condition: green, silvering.; Published in: The home of the blizzard / by Douglas Mawson. London : William Heinemann, 1915, v. 1 facing p. 128.; Reverse of image identifying Xavier Mertz as the subject published in: The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 / by Sir Douglas Mawson. Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 1996. [Mertz at the snow covered entrance of a hut. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]