Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.4452
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Emperor penguin
Date
1956-1959
Object type
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Subject
Content object
Description
A taxidermy Emperor penguin, shown standing, with head bowed, incubating an egg on an ice floe.
From the Royal Society's scientific station in the Antarctic, established in 1956 for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), specifically Emperor Bay, next to Halley Bay. Stuffed at the Natural History Museum.
From the Royal Society's scientific station in the Antarctic, established in 1956 for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), specifically Emperor Bay, next to Halley Bay. Stuffed at the Natural History Museum.
Object history
Either deposited with the Society when the advance party returned in 1956, or with the return of the first party in 1959.
Associated place