Macquarie Island, looking down onto the South-East point Penguin Rookery [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914] [picture] /

Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: broken corner; silvering.; Published in Sir Douglas Mawson's Home of the blizzard, v. II, London: William Heinemann, 1915, facing p. 244. See exhibition print in drawer H4. Reshot. "Macquarie Island, looking down onto the South-East point...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: [between 1911 and 1914] 1911
Subjects:
Penguins > Tasmania > Macquarie Island > Photographs
Macquarie Island (Tas.) > Photographs
Antarctic
Hurley
East Point
South East Point
Antarc*
Antarctica
Macquarie Island
Online Access:http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23478522
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Summary:Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: broken corner; silvering.; Published in Sir Douglas Mawson's Home of the blizzard, v. II, London: William Heinemann, 1915, facing p. 244. See exhibition print in drawer H4. Reshot. "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".; Hurley series: Antarctica.; Also available as a photograph: PIC Box PIC/16030 #PIC/16030/17; Also available as a photograph: PIC FH 10887 LOC H4/21.

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