Photograph: Anton Hunt on TOTORORE at sea, near Marion Island, Jan 86
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Jan 1986
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Handwritten annotation in black pen on verso reads: "Anton Hunt in the bow".
Anton Hunt was a marine biologist on Marion Island, South African Meteorological Research station, in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean where TOTORORE arrived for assistance when dismasted in January 1986. He assisted Gerry Clark with creating a a bidpod mast. Anton accompanied Gerry Clark on a circumnavigation of Marion Island on TOTORORE sometime in late January. (Source: The Totorore Voyage, Gerry Clark, 1988).
Part of a large collection of written and audiovisual, photographic resources and equipment which belonged to Gerry Clark; most of which document his voyages in the Southern Ocean.
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