Series:
Macquarie Island Aerial Photographs
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
15 Mar 1947
End Date:
15 Mar 1947
Creating Agency:
| Nominal Source for Non-Government Records (XX5) |
How to Use:
Digital images of this record series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages.
These photographs are copies not originals and there is no known information about the whereabouts of the originals. For this reason, higher resolution copies of these images are not available.
Series notes:
These photographs are a set of mostly oblique black and white photogaphs taken from an RAAF Lincoln Bomber. The RAAF did an aerial survey of Macquarie Island in 1947. The photographs were thought to have been used to assist planners of the Australian expedition to the Antarctic later that year when Macquarie Island was to be used as a base. The Lands and Surveys Department began their work on Macquarie Island in the early 1950s and subsequently acquired these photographs.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
Information Sources:
The Advertiser (Adelaide SA) 17 March 1947;;DPIPWE
Items: