Photographs from South Georgia whaling stations, field work and landscapes
Reference
D.2025.17.1
Date
1970s
Exent
53 photographs
Archival history
Collections of photographs from South Georgia in the early 1970s. Subjects include Grytviken and other South Georgia whaling stations, field work and landscapes. Some photographs have specific descriptions: [D.2025.17.1.22] shows the Hamburg Glacier and Moraine Fjord in April 1971. [D.2025.17.1.23] shows the Ross Glacier looking across Royal Bay from a position close to the 1882 German site early in 1972. [D.2025.17.1.24 and .25] shows the Bertrab Glacier in Gold Harbour in Feb/March 1972. [D.2025.17.1.26] shows the Herz Glacier in Iris Bay late in 1973. [D.2025.17.1.31; .32; .35; and .36] show Godthul in early 1971. [D.2025.17.1.33 and .34] show Ocean Harbour also in early 1971. [D.2025.17.1.53] shows Brian Summers in 1970.
The photographs were collected by Philip Stone, Geologist with the British Antarctic Survey 1970-75.
