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
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'
NLA 146757666 guide 'General' Giles & his ADC Jackson Zapopan Brocks Ck JP Campbell 1912
Earnest Giles 'The General'
UNCATAGORISED
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
Market Gardens in Dr's Gully below hospital
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHERS
Hamilton & Hake
Captain Sam Sweet
Inspector Paul Foelsche
NT FAMOUS SHIPS
Arnhem - no image
Typical VOC Yacht
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Cumberland - Colonial Schooner
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Investigator |
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
Captain Sam Sweet's Gulnare at Southport
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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 |
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 |
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 MemorialFilipino Crew MemorialNative Pilots Memorial |
Z Special MemorialUS Truck Convoy Drivers MemorialCoastwatchers' Memorial |
BUFFALO SHOOTERS
Paddy Cahill |
Joe Cooper NLA Joe Cooper 1912
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Stuart |
Yellow Charlie |
PLAQUES & SIGNAGE
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.