The crystal canoe, a glittering scene typical of all the active glaciers at South Georgia. All are very active, constantly calving and launching small bergs into the area. This is Degeer Glacier. Shackleton Expedition 1914-15 [picture] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [between 1916 and 1917] 1916
• Subjects: Glaciers > South Georgia Island > Photographs; South Georgia Island > Photographs; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; Antarctic Ocean; Hurley; South Georgia Island; Glacier Shackleton; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552278

Condition: Good.; Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: FH 1018.; Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.; "The memorial exhibition of the late Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation"--Printed on mount.; Caption: "The crystal canoe, a glittering scene typical of all the active glaciers at South Georgia. All are very active, constantly calving and launching small bergs into the area. This is Degeer Glacier. Shackleton Expedition 1914-15"--Lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24552278; 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.; Exhibited in online exhibition: "In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s" at http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/newlight/ ANL.