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'On and Around Stewart Island, New Zealand' photograph album by George Turner - P2011-007/1

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Reference NumberP2011-007/1Date1920-1930CreatorPhillips, E.A. (Edward Arthur), 1882-1966DescriptionAn album entitled 'On and Around Stewart Island, New Zealand' containing 518 captioned photographs taken all over Stewart Island by George Turner in the 1920s. It includes a series of photographs relating to the Rosshavet Norwegian whaling company base. These show the stages of hauling up a whale chaser, the interior of machine shops where the boats were overhauled, staff, chasers tied up for the winter as well as E.A. Phillips photographs of the C.A. Larsen (Ship) before and after it struck a rock and photographs taken by the Chief Engineer of the Sir James Clark Ross (Ship) of whaling in the Ross Sea. Other photographs document mutton birding, including original prints of Turner's photographs published in the Otago Witness in 1927.

Only a small part of this collection is digitised and available through Digital Collections. Information about other items can be found on the Hākena catalogue, through the Library Catalogues link above.History / BiographyGeorge Turner was an early conservationist who settled on Stewart Island in the early 1920s. He took up photography, made nature films and gave illustrated talks about the native flora and fauna of Southern New Zealand.ProvenanceFound in Turner's old house, 'Raroa', on Stewart Island after his death.

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