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An incident in March soon after completion of the hut, Hodgeman, the night watchman returning from his rounds outside pushes his way into the veranda through the rapidly accumulating drift snow, Adelie Land [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.

 

The identity of the person in the photograph is uncertain as he has been identified as Mertz in one publication and Hodgeman in another publication.; Part of the John George Hunter collection of photographs, 1911-1914.; Condition: green, silvering.; Published in: The home of the blizzard / by Douglas Mawson. London : William Heinemann, 1915, v. 1 facing p. 128.; Reverse of image identifying Xavier Mertz as the subject published in: The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 / by Sir Douglas Mawson. Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 1996.

 

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Taken circa 1911