Summary heading

Content date for the photograph

Descriptive note

The date is February 1913. This is when the SY Aurora collected the western party from the Shackleton ice Shelf and would have been the only time that Frank Hurley – who is clearly the photographer – would have been at the Shackleton Ice Shelf.

References ‘The home of the Blizzard’ by Douglas Mawson; and works by photo-historian Helen Ennis.

Accessibility Support Services

21/11/2011