Janus: Photographs of New Guinea

RCS/Y3084A contains:
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8	'H.M.S. Nelson' in Port Moresby Harbour
9	Commodore Erskine addressing local native Chiefs on board 'H.M.S. Nelson '; Hood Bay off Kerepunu, November 17th
10	View from Dinner Is, Heath Is. in background
11	'H.M.S. Espiegle' (?), in Port Moresby harbour
12	Raising the Flag at Delena, Hall Sound, November 8th
13	Landing place at Delena Village, Hall Sound
14	First Gathering of Native Chiefs aboard 'H.M.S. Nelson', Port Moresby, November 5th
15	Native house at Suau
16	Native Village at Port Moresby
17	Native Village at Port Moresby
18	View from Dinner Island, China Strait showing 'H.M.S. Nelson' and 'H.M.S. Espiegle' at anchor
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Photographs of New Guinea

Title	Landing place at Delena Village, Hall Sound
Reference	Y3084A/13
Covering Dates	1884

Content and context

285 x 230 mm. A view showing a beach scene with huts, canoes and natives, with one unidentifiable European standing by a canoe. Nearby Yule Island, off Hall Sound, was the headquarters of the Italian explorer Luigi Maria D'Albertis for his expeditions up the Fly River. An original photograph for a fairly freely redrawn illustration in Lyne, p. 48. H.M.S. Nelson and Yule Island in left distance.

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Oceania

Papua New Guinea

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