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Physical Description
  • Bird eggs
  • 64 mm x 104 mm
  • Animal Samples and Products
Language
  • English

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Title
  • Egg, Giant Petrel, collected by John George Hunter on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Ex...
Other Contributors
  • Hunter, John George (User)
  • Hunter, John George (Used)
Physical Description
  • Bird eggs
  • 64 mm x 104 mm
  • Animal Samples and Products
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Summary
  • Egg, Giant Petrel, collected by John George Hunter on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Macquarie Island, 1912 Giant Petrel bird egg, white with a crack to the shell at the narrower top with two yellow feathers in the mouth of the break. The white shell has discolouration and there is a man made hole to where the egg was blown and hollowed.
Notes
  • Black ink to the shell ' NELLIE O.GIGANTEA.' and 'MACQUARIE.19 10.10.12 H.H' and the letters 'A.A.E' within a diamond shaped box to the side
  • Macquarie Island is a breeding place for some millions of sea birds, and has been of great interest to Antarctic expeditions throughout its history of exploration.
Language
  • English
Image Number
  • 35517
  • 2860
  • 85/​1699

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