[Merig, from the west, showing landing. Banks Group]

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Three small outrigger canoes being paddled in the sea. The bushclad island with a rocky foreshore is behind them.

Last Update: 12 May 2023

Other Id

19931 (Presto content ID)

PH-NEG-B5063 (Reference Number)

470 , 50 (Photographer's number)

35352 (DBTextworks system ID)

Department

Photography

Public Access Text

Caption from Catalogue of a series of photographs illustrating the scenery and peoples of the islands in the south and western Pacific, p.9.

John Watt Beattie, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, began photography in Hobart, Tasmania in 1882. He travelled to Melanesia in 1906 in the Melanesian Mission steamer "Southern Cross". Beattie was well known in Tasmania as a photographer/explorer.

[Merig, from the west, showing landing. Banks Group]

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