'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
by HURLEY, Frank
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About This Item
This photograph was taken at Cape Hunter, 'a rocky promontory on the west shore of Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica ... 15 km west of Cape Denison. It was discovered in 1912 and explored the following year by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for John G. Hunter, chief biologist of the expedition' (Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, retrieved online). The original catalogue entry offered further information about this image: 'At the Cape Hunter Rookery. "One could sit down among the soft, mild birds who were fearless at the approach of man"'. Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson (with the Mawson Estate stamp on the verso); by descent.
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- 108653
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- 'Antarctic Petrels on the Nest, Cape Hunter'
- Author
- HURLEY, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
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