On board a whale chaser, Antarctica, 1924 [picture] /

Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: silvering.; Two prints of photographs taken by a photographer for "The Mercury", Hobart. Top: A harpoon gun on one of the Pol boats, N.T. Nielsen-Alonso expedition, 1925-1926. Bottom: At work on the flensing deck of the Sir James Clark Ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 1924. 1924
Subjects:
Whalers (Persons) > Antarctica > Photographs
Whales > Carcasses > Antarctica > Photographs
Whaling ships > Antarctica > Photographs
Antarctica > Photographs
Antarctic
Antarctic Ocean
Hurley
Flensing
Discovery Inlet
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23478069
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Summary:Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: silvering.; Two prints of photographs taken by a photographer for "The Mercury", Hobart. Top: A harpoon gun on one of the Pol boats, N.T. Nielsen-Alonso expedition, 1925-1926. Bottom: At work on the flensing deck of the Sir James Clark Ross in Discovery Inlet at the end of February, 1924. Top: published as "A whaling-cannon, loaded with a harpoon, mounted on a swivelling base above the bows of whale-chaser" in Shackleton's Argonauts, 1948. Bottom: taken by Alan J. Villiers, Sir James Clark Ross expedition, published as "On board a whale-chaser", ibid. Reshot See prints in Filing Cabinet 57.; Hurley series: Antarctica.; Also available as a photograph: PIC Box PIC/16030 #PIC/16030/5; Also available as a photograph: PIC Box PIC/16030 #PIC/16030/2.

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