Sea birds - New Zealand - Campbell Island/Motu Ihupuku

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PAColl-5545

Description: Photographs taken by Philip George Poppleton while leader of team which established the meteorological station on Campbell Island in the 1950s. Arrangement: Slides housed at PA12-1423 to PA12-1429. Negatives housed at 35mm-22024 to 22066. Photocopies of album, which has been returned to donor, are housed at PAColl-5545. From 1945, Campbell Island was administered as a meteorological station by the Air Department. A permanent camp and scientific station was built as part of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958. George Poppleton was selected as leader of a seven man party to prepare the site at Beeman Cove; excavating and preparing foundations, laying marston matting tracks to provide access, and building a hydrogen generating shed. He was later selected as leader for a further two years, when most of these photographs were taken. All photographs were processed as colour slides on the island, using Anscochrome film. Quantity: 158 colour original transparency/ies 35mm slides. 159 colour copy negative(s). 54 photocopy/ies. Finding Aids: Manuscript index to colour slides (PA12-1423 to PA12-1429) housed at PAColl-5545..

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-02

Description: Photographs of sea birds on Campbell Island. Birds include a flightless duck, penguins, albatrosses, and mollymawkes. The largest group record wandering albatrosses. There is one photograph of a land bird. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-05

Description: Photographs of Campbell Island, its birds, animals, and plants. The ship "Tagua." A flying boat on the water. The men's quarters and vegetable garden. Men hauling a roller and setting up a water wheel. Views of the radio transmitting station, and its equipment. Photographs of the Kermadec Islands all relate to Raoul Island, and record something of the life of the men stationed there. As well as the New Zealanders a small workforce of youths from Niue took part in the operation. Photographs show New Zealanders and Niueans clearing vegetation, building a road, butchering cattle, working a crane on the waterfront landing place, landing supplies, and harvesting oranges. Others show vegetable gardens, and a nursery of unidentified trees. Quantity: 146 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-03

Description: Photographs of sea birds on Campbell and Auckland Islands. Birds include penguins, albatrosses, mollymawkes, skuas, shags, penguins, and a land bird. There are also photographs of an owl and a white flowered clematis. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-01

Description: Photographs of sea birds and plants on Campbell and Auckland Islands. Birds include albatrosses, mollymawkes, gulls, skuas, shags, and penguins. Plants are Chrysobactron rosii, Anisotome latifolium, and kelp. The birds are recorded as adults, chicks, and in some cases, juveniles. Some nests and eggs have also been photographed. Two landscape photographs of Campbell Island include a view along the south coast towards Mount Paris, and a rock formation on Mount Beeman. Quantity: 70 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-04

Description: Photographs of Penguins on Campbell Island. An albatross on a house roof. What is possibly a species of dolphin. Maps of Campbell Island. Photographs of a graph and a chart. Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1942-1945

From: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982 :Photographs relating to Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec Islands

Reference: PAColl-8938-06

Description: Photographs of sea birds, seals, and plants, Campbell Island. Birds include penguins, albatrosses, mollymawkes, and shags. There are also some landscape and coastal views. Quantity: 124 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: November 1907

By: Bollons, John Peter (Capt), 1862-1929; Page, Samuel, active 1907; Bollons, L R (Mrs), active 1946

Reference: PA1-q-228

Description: Album of photographs of plant and animal life on Stewart Island, Snares Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island taken on the scientific expedition to the Sub-Antarctic Islands undertaken in November 1907. Also includes are photographs of the Government steamship Hinemoa, on which the expedition travelled, and of of the remains of the ships Grafton and Dundonald, which were wrecked in the Auckland Islands. The photographer for the expedition was Samuel Page. A long two page inscription is inserted in the front of the album. Two copies, one hand-written with inscription and 25 signatures, followed by a copper-plate copy of the inscription and list of names. The inscription begins "To Captain J. Bollons, G.S.S. Hinemoa. We the members of the Scientific Expedition organised by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury which has just visited the Auckland and Campbell Islands under your charge desire to thank you most sincerely & gratefully for the many facilities which you have put in our way for carrying on our investigations ..." One photograph shows the members of the Auckland Islands party of the expedition (names listed above). Another shows the surviving members of the crew of the Dundonald which was wrecked on Disappointment Island, and one showing three of the survivors on the deck of the Hinemoa with Hinemoa crew member K. Knudson, standing by the frame of a canvas boat which they used to try and escape from the island. (Photograph with caption listing their names, p 9) In 1907 the New Zealand Government agreed, after representations from the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, the Otago Institute and the New Zealand Institute, to land scientific parties on the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island, during the annual trip of the Government steamship Hinemoa, under the command of Captain Bollons, in November. The purpose of the expedition was to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand, and to further investigate the geology, zoology and botany of these islands. The expedition left Bluff on 14 November 1907. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth bound photograph album with leather corners and spine, 36.3 x 29 cm Provenance: This album was presented to Captain Bollons by the members of the expedition.