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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. |
| Classified name: |
| SPRI theme |
natural history
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| Current place name |
Antarctic regions > British Antarctic Territory > Maritime Antarctic > Antarctic Peninusla > Graham Land
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| UDC |
591.465.1 : 598.45
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| Geographic UDC |
(*726.3)
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| Getty AAT |
eggs
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| Field collection: |
| Date |
1948 |
| Place |
Antarctic regions > British Antarctic Territory > Maritime Antarctic > Antarctic Peninsula > Graham Land > Red Rock Ridge |
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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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| Dimensions: |
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Length: 69mm, circumference: 180mm
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