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The Aurora lying at anchor, Commonwealth Bay [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.

 

Part of the John George Hunter collection of photographs of Antarctica, 1911-1914.; Published in: The home of the blizzard / by Douglas Mawson. London : William Heinemann, 1915, v. 2 facing p. 164. In the distance the ice slopes of the mainland are visible rising to a height of 2000 feet. In the foregraound is a striking formation originating by the freezing of spray dashed up by the hurricane wind, Adelie Land.

 

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Uploaded on September 23, 2011
Taken sometime in 1913