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FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962)

Gentoo penguins, Elephant Island

April-August 1916

RCIN 2580120

Penguins were an essential part of the Elephant Island cuisine, providing the crucial fresh meat that kept hunger and scurvy at bay. This colony of Gentoos would quickly have been destined for the larder.

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