13 Nov 2019

Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Archival penguins

From Afternoons, 1:43 pm on 13 November 2019

The big win this week in the "Bird of the Year" competition by hoiho - aka the yellow-eyed penguin - prompted Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision to take a dive into sound archives.

Today we hear recordings about our black and white feathered friends.

A crate of penguins onboard the USS Edisto, 1956. Image: Evening Post newspaper courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library.

Seaman Paul Bauer with a 40lb Emperor Penguin on the icebreaker USS Edisto, 1956. Image: Evening Post newspaper courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library.

Thomas Clissold making bread in one of the Scott Antarctic huts, 1911. Image courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library.

Naturalist David Bellamy, 1981. Photograph by Allan Warren CC BY-SA 3.0.

Yellow Eyed Penguin. Photo by Kimberley Collins.