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CONTENTS

Home, Projects & Activities, Arnhem Land & Beyond and More.....

PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES 


First Contact - A collection of accounts of first contact between Aboriginal people and outsiders.
First Contact

HMS Beagle
Subject Pages - Watch Vessel No. 7 and Paglesham Parch Marks
HMS BEAGLE
Watch Vessel No. 7
Paglesham Parch Marks
Beagle Well Darwin 1839

HMAS Patricia Cam - The story of the sinking of the Pat Cam
Subject Pages - 75th Anniversary of the sinking - The Men & Their Families - Ship's Knee MH7 - Beatie's Yard - The Lady Yetive - The Sandy Sanford Story - Sanford & Pat Cam Memorial
HMAS PATRICIA CAM
75th Anniversary
The Men & their Families
Ship's Knee MH7
Gordon Beattie's Yard
The Sandy Sanford Story
Sanford & Pat Cam Memorial

Macassans - Trepang Fishermen from Indonesia - mostly based at Makassar on Sulawesi Island.
Subject Pages - ​Pobassoo Island - Sea Gypsies
MACASSANS
Pobassoo Island

Matther Flinders - The Long Way Home
Subject Pages - Flinder & HMS Cumberland

MATTHEW FLINDERS - THE LONG WAY HOME
Flinders & HMS Cumberland

Miscellany - Assortment of oddities
Subject Pages - Capt. Cook Bad Hair Day
MISCELLANY
Capt. Cook Bad Hair Day

Mystery Objects - People send in images of their finds & we attempt to identify them.
MYSTERY OBJECTS

NT History in 100 Images - not looking promising
NT HISTORY in a HUNDRED IMAGES

NT Image Makers & Takers - Notable artists & photographers
Subject Pages - Paul Foelsche Centenary 2014 - NT Painters & Sketchers - William Westall
NT IMAGE MAKERS & TAKERS
Paul Foelsche Centenary 2014
NT Painters & Sketchers
William Westall {Flinders}

OSL Beach Dating - Optically Stimulated Luminescence
OSL BEACH DATING

PM Papers, Notes & Insights
PM PAPERS, NOTES & INSIGHTS

Shell Mounds & Middens
SHELL MOUNDS & MIDDENS

Territory Treasures
​
Subject Pages - Boustead Jar & Shell Dunes - Dundee Beach Swivel Gun
TERRITORY TREASURES
Boustead Jar & Shell Dunes
Dundee Beach Swivel Gun

Top End Timeline - 
TOP END TIME LINE

ARNHEM LAND & BEYOND

This discovery of the Adelaide River by the men of the Beagle & subsequent attempt at settlement by the South Australian Government.
ADELAIDE RIVER at ADAM BAY
ESCAPE CLIFFS - FORT & CAMP

COBOURG PENINSULAR
PM Expedition 2017
Fort Wellington
Victoria Settlement
Victoria Cemetery
Lambrick Archive

Darwin Harbour - A notional cruise on Port Darwin from Cullen Bay to Frances Bay
​Subject Pages - Top End Heritage Park [Darwin Heritage Assets - Historic Statues & The Pre-fabrication of Australian History]
Channel Island Centenary Quarantine to Lazarette  -  ​Doctor's Gully - East Point Reserve - Goyder's Camp & Early Darwin - Government House {The Govt. House Gun} - Overland Telegraph & Undersea Cables - Naval Fuel Depot WW2 - Victoria Hotel - Wagait Beach - Z Special & Catalina Base.
DARWIN HARBOUR
Top End Heritage Park
Darwin Heritage Assets
Historic Statues
Pre-fab Australian History

Channel Island Lazarette
Doctor's Gully
East Point Reserve
Goyder's Camp

Government House
Govt. House Gun
OT Line & Sea Cables
RAN Fuel Depot

Victoria Hotel
Wagait Beach
Z Special & Catalina Base

Down The Track - Heritage Council Field Trip - Sept. 2014
DOWN THE TRACK

Elcho Island Portrait - A pictorial history of Elcho Island
Subject Pages - Elcho Past Muster - Workshop, Finds & Losses - Galiwin'ku Community
ELCHO ISLAND PORTRAIT
Elcho Past Muster - Workshop, Finds & Losses
Galiwin'ku Community

Gove Peninsular
Subject Pages
 - Catalina Beach WW2 - Control Tower Museum - Gove Airfield - Gunyangara - Heritage Rangers - Nhulunbuy township - Wurrawurrawuy Stone Pictures - Yirrkala
GOVE PENINSULAR
Catalina Beach WW2
Heritage Rangers
Control Tower Museum
Nhulunbuy
Gove Airfield
Wurrawurrawuy
Gunyangara
Yirrkala

Gapuwiyak {Lake Evella)
Subject page -
NE Arnhem Land community
GAPUWIYAK - LAKE EVELLA

Goulburn Island Centenary
GOULBURN ISLAND CENTENARY

Groote Eylandt
Subject Pages
- Angurugu -  Bickerton Island - Emerald River - Umbakumba
GROOTE EYLANDT
Angurugu
Bickerton Island
Emerald River
Umbakumba

Milingimbi
​Subject Pages
- Rangers & WW2 Airstrip
MILINGIMBI
Rangers & WW2 Airstrip

Oenpelli - Gunbalanya
Subject Pages
- Oenpelli Mission 1953 - 1985 - Oenpelli Mission the Early Days - Oenpelli the Buffalo Days with Paddy Cahill
OENPELLI - GUNBALANYA
Oenpelli Mission 1953 - 1985
Oenpelli Mission - The Early Days
Oenpelli - The Buffalo Days

Ramingining
Subject page - NE Arnhem Land community
RAMINGINING

Timor & Oecussi
TIMOR & OECUSSI

The TIWI Islands
Subject page - Bathurst Island MIssion - Carslow beach & the Dutch Landing in 1710 - Fort Dundas on Melville Island at Garden Point 1824-1829 - Snake Bay - Milikapiti community on Melville Island

- THE TIWI ISLANDS -
Bathurst Island
Carslow Beach & the Dutch 1710
Fort Dundas & Garden Point 1824 - 1829
Snake Bay - Milikapiti

Wessel Islands
Subject Pages - The Painted Caves - Ancient Coins in Arnhem Land - Australians Bay - Hopeful Bay - Mary Bryant Story - Wessels 2018 - Wessel Islands Radar 312RS

MORE.............

Publications & Articles
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

Contacts
CONTACTS

​The website is intended as a reference facility, primarily viewed on a desktop monitor. Images are large as the detail is important & copying simplified. Images are by Michael B. Owen except where stated. Pages currently under construction may be password protected to give the impression that something is actually happening. Some pages are still at the stage of being unconsolidated repositories for images, quotations and links to resources - others are aspirational - some are just curiosities.

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