A blizzard at Winter Quarters, Cape Denison, Antarctica, ca. 1913 [picture] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [between 1911 and 1914] 1911
• Subjects: Australasian Antarctic Expedition; (1911-1914) > Photographs; Blizzards > Antarctica > Denison; Cape > Photographs; Huts > Antarctica > Denison; Denison; Cape (Antarctica) > Photographs; Commonwealth Bay (Antarctica) > Photographs; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; Antarctic Ocean; Hurley; Commonwealth Bay; Cape Denison; Denison Cape; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24573405

Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Condition: Good.; Caption: "A blizzard at Winter Quarters. The Mawson Base was established in the windiest known spot on the face of the globe. Winds with gusts up to 200 m.p.h. were recorded. The mean, hourly wind velocity throughout the first year was 49.9 m.p.h. Mawson Expedition 1911-13."--Lower left.; "With Shackleton to the Antarctic. Photography by Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation."--Printed on mount.; Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: FH/1057.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24573405; Published in: The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian antarctic expedition, 1911-1914 / by Sir Douglas Mawson . London : W. Heinemann, 1915. v. I, facing p. 124.