The only land in the vast expanse of tempestuous seas, South Georgia is the homing place of sea birds, penguins and seals. The Clapmatch or fur seal has long been exterminated but sea elephants are plentiful and make rookeries in secluded spots among the tussock grasses, where they breed, sleep, snore and grunt incessantly. Shackleton Expedition 1914-15 [picture] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: between 1914 and 1917. 1914
• Subjects: Elephant seals > Antarctica > Photographs; South Georgia Island > Photographs; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; Antarctic Ocean; Hurley; South Georgia Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552196

Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: FH 1075.; "The memorial exhibition of the late Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation"--Printed on mount.; Caption: "The only land in the vast expanse of tempestuous seas, South Georgia is the homing place of sea birds, penguins and seals. The Clapmatch or fur seal has long been exterminated but sea elephants are plentiful and make rookeries in secluded spots among the tussock grasses, where they breed, sleep, snore and grunt incessantly. Shackleton Expedition 1914-15."--Lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552196; Published in: Shackleton's argonauts : a saga of the Antarctic ice-packs / Frank Hurley. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1948.