| Summary: | Part of collection: Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Condition: Creases.; Caption: "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. Mawson Expedition 1911-13."--Lower left.; "With Shackleton to the Antarctic. Photography by Frank Hurley O.B.E. A Kodak presentation."--Printed on mount.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24573982; Also available as a negative: PIC FH/1041 LOC Cold store PIC HURL 67/5; 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. II, 1915, facing p. 244.
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