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Title
File 09: Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914 photographs : half plate, stereo
Call number
ON 144/H1-H100
Level of description
file
Date

1911-1914
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
839779
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
53 negatives - glass - (half plate, stereo)
Scope and Content
H1: Main base Hut viewed from the North
H3. A large erratic resting on gneiss Cape Denison area
H5: View looking east over the gneissic rocks at Cape Denison
H7: A snow cornice on an ice cliff face
H8: Pancake ice on Commonwealth Bay
H9: Snow stalactites in the enclosed verandah of the Main Base Hut
H10: The Anemograph viewed from the Main Base Hut
H13: The western Extremity of the Cape Denison rocky area.
H21: Traversing pack ice
H25: Winter Quarters Hut viewed from Adelie Penguin Rookery on the western side of the Cape Denison area.
H28: Snow petrel at the nest
H29: Snow petrels mated at nest. Cape Denison
H32: The wrecked “Clyde” Macquarie Id. Dec.1911
H35: Flaying a sea-elephant at Cape Denison
H37: Adelie Penguins at Rookery, Cape Denison
H42: A small rookery of Adelie Penguins amongst splintered boulders E. of Cape Denison
H46: Trough along the crest of the pressure ridge in the Boat Harbour ice, Main Base Station.
H48: A fissure in the crest of a pressure ridge Boat Harbour Ice. Correll is the figure
H51: The sea-ward face of the Antarctic Ice cap at Commonwealth Bay. A Blizzard driven spray ice fortification in the foreground.
H52: Glimpse of the Ice foot. Cape Denison area
H53: The Main Base Station: In the foreground pressure ridges are seen in the ice of the Boat Harbour
H54: The Ice cliffs beyond John ‘o’ Groats
H55: A view across the desolate rocky outcrop forming the Cape Denison area
H56: Frank Hurley photographing on the brink of the Great Ice Wall
H57: Weddell seal on floe ice below coastal ice cliff. Commonwealth Bay
H58: The main Base Hut viewed from the east
H60: View from the living room through into the workshop of Main Base Hut
H61: Main Base Hut from the south east
H62: The Ice quay at the Boat Harbour
H65: The ice foot, Cape Denison area
H66: Madigan, Hodgeman, & Bage in front of the Transit House
H68: The gneissic rocks: western side of Cape Denison area
H70: Traversing loose pack ice
H71: In pack ice
H72: Letting out sail in the pack ice
H74: In pack ice
H76: A berg in sea of loose pack ice
H80: Main Base Hut from the south-west.
H81: Dogs frolicking on a neve bank near Winter Quarters
H83: Rock exposure beneath the barrier face just east of John ‘O’ Groats
H85: Floating margin of the ice cap east of John ‘O’ Groats
H86: On the ice slopes south of Cape Denison
H87: Main base hut from the north-west
H88: Frank Wild on board the S.Y. Aurora
H89: Wild (as Drake) in fancy dress on the Aurora, December 1911
H90: The complement of the “Aurora” cheering the departing members of the main base party – off Cape Denison, January 1912
H91: Hobart as seen from the Crow’s nest of the “Aurora” at Queens’ wharf
H92: Hobart from the Crow’s nest of the “Aurora”
H94: Pancake ice at Land’s End
H95: View across the rocky outcrop at Cape Denison
H97: Traversing unknown waters
H99: On the track to the summit of Mt. Wellington, Tasmania [broken plate]
H100. Snapshot at fern tree near Hobart prior to departure south, November 1911
System of arrangement
Original numbering kept. Note not all negatives held.
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
General note

The H series numbers are duplicated. These stereo negatives were not copied onto the laser disc with the remaining ON 144 collection.
H98 was identified as missing from the original listing in 1964.
Digital order no:Album ID : 866661
Date note

Undated. Dated from the Expedition
Conservation note

Preservation of this collection was supported by Perpetual Foundation, 2002
Exhibited in

Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 20 April to 23 July 2018 - State Library of New South Wales (20 April - 23 July, 2018). Applies to: H.62. The Ice quay at the Boat Harbour
Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 23 July to 22 October 2018 - State Library of New South Wales (July 2018 - October 2018). Applies to: H.72. Letting out sail in the pack ice
Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 22 October 2018 to 23 January 2019 - State Library of New South Wales (October 2018 - January 2019). Applies to: H.83. Rock exposure beneath the barrier face just east of John ‘O’ Groats
Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 23 January to 19 April 2019 - State Library of New South Wales (January 2019 - April 2019). Applies to: H.85. Floating margin of the ice cap east of John ‘O’ Groats
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