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The Broome Flying Boat compendium: a guide to navigating the Department of Maritime Archaeology archives and collection
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 15 Jan 2019
Appearing in the form of a chronologically arranged précis of all that has transpired under the Department’s auspices before 2018, The Broome Flying Boat Compendium fulfills that role. Throughout explanatory footnotes lead the reader to the materials list ...
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Broome Aircraft Wreck (BAC) artefact catalogue
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 8 Aug 2018
This work is the result of an internship arranged between Notre Dame University and the Western Australian Museum’s Department of Maritime Archaeology, undertaken on a one day per week basis between 1 July and 31 October 2016. The primary aim of the inter ...
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The mystery of the missing VOC shipwreck in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 2 Sep 2018
The Zeewijk , a VOC retourschip (returning vessel) sailed for the Indies in 1726; it was wrecked in the Pelsaert Group of the southern Houtman Abrolhos islands in the following year. The survivors managed to reach a nearby island, where they lived for nin ...
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The Batavia Journal of Francisco Pelsaert translation (A. de Jong) 2007
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 25 Feb 2019
136b 136 Francisco Pelsaert/Adriaan de Jong 2007 The Batavia Journal of Francisco Pelsaert translation (A. de Jong) 2007 PDF 1.04 MB ...
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Comparisons between the different versions of the Ongeluckige Voyagie
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 27 May 2019
This report discusses the various differences between the nine versions of the Ongeluckige Voyage van 't Schip Batavia ...
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Ningaloo Reef, Point Cloates fieldwork report 5-15 May 2008
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 27 May 2019
Report on Correio d' Asia (1816), Stefano (1876), Rapid (1811), SS Perth, (1877), SS Fin (1923), Norwegian Bay whaling station (1915-57), Norwegian Bay barge, Fraser Island lighthouse (1964) site inspections, with contributions from Berry, J., B ...
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Pakington whaling station inspection, Port Gregory 12 June 2018
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 27 May 2019
On 28 May 2018 Port Gregory resident Mr Greg Horsman reported to the WA Museum that storms and large swells had exposed historical materials on the beachfront at Pakington Whaling Station site, one kilometre north of Port Gregory. Significantly, whaling-r ...
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Wreck Inspection Report 7 Mile Beach (Dongara) Margaret Ann
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 7 Jun 2019
No. 329 329 Anderson, R. & McCarthy, M. 2018 Wreck Inspection Report 7 Mile Beach (Dongara) Margaret Ann PDF 602.78 KB ...
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Ceramics from the Musi River, Palembang, Indonesia
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 15 Feb 2021
Shortly after 2011, artefacts from below the Musi River began to appear in the antique markets of both Jakarta and Bali. And considerable quantities were sold overseas via internet transaction. Many of those sales did not associate objects with the Musi R ...
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Laperouse and the loss of the Astrolabe and the Boussole (178
Maritime Archaeology Reports | Updated 7 Jun 2019
In 1788, the two s hips of the French scientific and exploratory expe dition led by Lapero u se. the Aslrolabe and Boussole, were lost w i thout trace . ...
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