Item MM 112838 Lantern Slide - Three Rockhopper Penguins, the Crested Type, BANZARE Voyage 1, Antarctica, 1929-1930

Summary

Lantern slide of three Crested Rockhopper Penguins.

One of 328 images in various formats including artworks, photographs, glass negatives and lantern slides.

Description of Content

Three Rockhopper penguins - a crested type of penguin. In fact all Rockhopper Penguins are crested. These Rockhoppers were probably seen on the Crozet Group or at the Kerguelen Islands. Photograph taken during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), Voyage 1.

Physical Description

Standard format lantern slide, consisting of two glass sheets each 3.25 x 3.25 ins (83 x 83mm), one pane bearing a positive transparent image and the other pane protecting the image. Sealed with paper binding strips around the four edges of the lantern slide and internally framed with a black cut-out window mask.