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Snowfield
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This is not a picture of Antarctica, but'of portion ot the immensu snowfiolus. that give birth to the Franz Joset Glacier, South Westland. It is taken from tho Mackay Rocks looking north across tho great Geikio snowfield and on to the Salisbury snowfield and the Baird Range, with St. Mildred Peak in the centre. St. Mildred Peak is three miles distant from the camera, and ski-ing marks can be seen In the left foreground. It is here on a calm, fine day that one begins to understand what is meant by the term "The Great Silence." (Evening Post, 27 April 1929)
National Library of New Zealand
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SNOW IN SYDNEY (Evening Post, 15 March 1932)
National Library of New Zealand
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CALL OF THE ALPS (NZ Truth, 31 October 1929)
National Library of New Zealand
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Kodak i'llin. – This picture shows the trough, above Aimer bivouac, in which, by melting i snow from the adjoining snowfield, the water supply is obtained."The trough is known as "Mrs. Murphy's Pub," and. whenever, a refilling with-snow takes placo the keas immediately hop in and set to with extraordinary perseverance and throw it out in as big chunkc as they can manage. The picture shows four lumpsjon the rocks below which this bird has ejected." The other bird,. i "fed up" with the job, is making,off over the snowfield towards the.Great ' Ice-Falls of tho:Franz'Josef Glacier. . . . The Government will give flve'shil, lings a head for cither of these birds on the ground that they kill sheep, ! though they have never seen a sheep, because there are none within many, many milesof them. ' – – (Evening Post, 06 April 1929)
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