Scott Polar Research Institute
Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection
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| Accession no.: | Z: 424/3 | ||||||||||
| Object name: | Egg | ||||||||||
| Title: | Egg | ||||||||||
| Description: | An Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) egg, collected on Red Rock Ridge, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica in 1948. | ||||||||||
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| Number of items: | 1 | ||||||||||
| Full description: |
An Adélie Penguin egg. The egg is beige and very round in shape. The egg is very heavy; there is no drilled hole but the shell is cracked. There are no markings on the egg itself; but an accompanying paper label reads 'Adelie Penguin // HI NN 1948 // Red Rock Ridge' (this has been written in pencil on a Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geological specimen label). |
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