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[The abode of science on Heard Island, BANZARE, 1929]

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.

 

Part of the John George Hunter collection of photographs of Antarctica, 1911-1914. The tiny old Norwegian hut in which eight scientists of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition dwelt during a prolonged blizzard which marooned them for eight days in November 1929.

 

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Uploaded on September 23, 2011
Taken sometime in 1929