Moraine Fjord. A colony of penguins below the Degeer Glacier. This ice river, which has its origin in the high levels of the interior, has gouged a passage through the mountains to the head of the Fjord, where it expands itself in ice falls and avalanches [picture] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [between 1911 and 1917] 1911
• Subjects: Glaciers > South Georgia Island > Photographs; Adelie penguin > Antarctica > Photographs; Antarctica > Photographs; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Ocean; Hurley; South Georgia Island; Moraine Fjord; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552246

Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Condition: Good.; Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: FH 1172.; "The memorial exhibition of the late Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation"--Printed on mount.; Caption: "Moraine Fjord. A colony of penguins below the Degeer Glacier. This ice river, which has its origin in the high levels of the interior, has gouged a passage through the mountains to the head of the Fjord, where it expands itself in ice falls and avalanches."--Lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552246; Published in: Shackleton's argonauts : a saga of the Antarctic ice-packs / Frank Hurley. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1948.; Exhibited: In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s, National Library of Australia, 9 October 2003 - 26 January 2004.