A blizzard at Winter Quarters, Cape Denison, Antarctica, ca. 1913 [picture] / Frank Hurley
- Bib ID:
- 2386036
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 10061 #PIC/21259/24 copy
- Description:
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- [between 1911 and 1914]
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 33.8 cm., on mount 50.2 x 40.6 cm.
- Series:
- Hurley collection of photographic prints.
- Notes:
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- 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.
- PIC Drawer PM 10061 #PIC/21259/24 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147385847
- 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.
- Subject:
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This belongs to the Hurley collection of photographic prints.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1914
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