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DARWIN - ​HISTORIC STATUES & SCULPTURE


This pages proposes public art, plaques & other heritage infrastructure necessary to Top End Heritage Tourism e.g. a Statue of Goyder with theodolite to mark the sesquicentenary of Darwin City - a purple plaque on the old bank façade preserved for it's heritage value & plastered in Paspaley advertising but nothing whatsoever to engage the curious & inform the populous. That great effort & expense should go into preserving this feature is passing commendable but to then entirely neglect to tell anyone what it is & why it has been saved says some very insightful things about Darwin heritage management.

STATUES & SCULPTURES


THE EXPLORERS

Samu Baju - tricky
​Macassans - Pobassoo, Using Daeng Rhanka - generic prau - stoneline & pots
Portuguese - tricky
Dutch - Tasman, Pool, Arnhem & Pera van Carsten, Pietersoon - something generic
French - Astrolabe etc - did sod all but

Matthew Flinders RN - Discoverer of Australia

Admiral Phillip Parker King RN

Ludwig Leichhardt 

Stuart

Finniss

Beagle - Stokes & Wickham

Gregory

Earnest Giles 'The General'​

PictureNLA 146757666 guide 'General' Giles & his ADC Jackson Zapopan Brocks Ck JP Campbell 1912
Earnest Giles 'The General'

UNCATAGO​RISED

Spencer & Gillen

Ted Egan


PRE-DARWIN SOLDIERS & SETTLERS​

Barlow

JS Roe

Captain Stirling

Collett Barker

Campbell

Lt & Sophie Hicks - 1st white woman to die in North Australia

General & Emma Lambrick - 1st White woman's known grave


EARLY DARWIN IDENTITIES

Charles Darwin

Goyder 'Little Energy'

CHINESE - CULTURE & PEOPLE

​Shou Lao Statue

Chinese wood seller

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Prayer Furnace​

Fishermen, Miners, Business - Ah Toy

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Chinese Market Gardens

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Market Gardens in Dr's Gully below hospital

EARLY PHOTOGRAPHERS​

Hamilton & Hake

Captain Sam Sweet

Inspector Paul Foelsche


NT FAMOUS SHIPS

Arnhem - no image

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Typical VOC Yacht

Cumberland - Colonial Schooner 

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Investigator

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Mission Boats

Pearling Luggers


Darwin Region

Macassan Prau

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Mermaid

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Lady Nelson

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Beagle

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Gulnare

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Captain Sam Sweet's Gulnare at Southport

Midge - uncertain

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The Horsehide Boat

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Forlorn Hope

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MAJOR EVENTS

1st Overland Telegraph Pole Planting

The Stock Fleet - Saved hundreds of men, the OT Line & SA from bankruptcy 

Landing of the Undersea Cable

CYCLONES


PEACETIME NAVAL DISASTERS

Gothenberg

Pelorus

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Ellen Gowan

Douglas Mawson


EARLY AVIATORS​

Harold Shepherdson

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EARLY GOVERNMENT RESIDENTS

Dr Gilruth


WORLD WAR II 

Admiral Tom Moorer USN

Killer Caldwell

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1st action of 19/2/42 - his Catalina out of Darwin shot down by Japs, landed safely on sea & saved crew, 1 hour later rescued by Florence D promptly sunk by Japs, organised getting men ashore - rescued by missionary from Bathurst Is. Mission.

Went on to earn many awards & commendations for bravery - was head of Joint Chiefs of Staff during Vietnam War.

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Bombing of Darwin Memorial

Post Office Memorial

HMAS Armidale

HMAS Patricia Cam Memorial

Catalina Memorial

Filipino Crew Memorial

Native Pilots Memorial

Z Special Memorial

US Truck Convoy Drivers Memorial

Coastwatchers' Memorial


BUFFALO SHOOTERS

Paddy Cahill

Joe Cooper

PictureNLA Joe Cooper 1912

Stuart

Yellow Charlie


PLAQUES & SIGNAGE

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It's good to do these things but not in isolation - nobody knows where this is - even people who've spent large lumps of their lives in Darwin - what's the point - if not to engage & communicate then it must be to isolate & exclude - exclusivity is defensive, recruitment to group paranoia of us against the world - is this the Post Tracy Stress Disorder that brings fear of facing the sea.

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