ANTARCTICA A CENTURY AGO IN COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS - taken during Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition

Australian photographer Frank Hurley visited Antarctica six times, accompanying the famous polar explorers Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, between 1911 and 1932. 

During that time he produced a series of images which were not only widely acclaimed at the time, but have gone on to become a 'poignant record of a fascinating era of southern discovery.'

 

Among his most famous images are the series of colour photographs from Shackleton's ill-fated expedition of 1914-16, which document the destruction of the Endurance.  The images depict the ship marooned in pack ice about 20 miles from Antarctica and the crew's subsequent ordeal as they abandoned the vessel, made their way across the ice and waited to be rescued. 

 

According to the website of the State Library of New South Wales: 'Hurley's images of the expeditions led by Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton remain as popular and poignant records of a fascinating era of southern discovery.'  

 

Picture above:  Address: Biologist John George Hunter addresses the Adelie penguins taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14  -  State Library of New South Wales, Daily Mail.

 

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657121/Pictured-Antarctica-seen-colour-century-ago-remarkable-images-taken-photographer-accompanied-explorers-Sir-Ernest-Shackleton-Douglas-Mawson.html