Plants - New Zealand - Campbell Island/Motu Ihupuku

Date: 1955-1960

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of South Island, East Coast, North Island, and Campbell Island

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PA1-f-196

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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: 1941-1942

By: Redican, M H (Mr), active 1995

Reference: PA1-f-169

Description: Photographs of coastwatchers on Campbell Island 1941-1942,documenting personnel, the landscape, flora and fauna. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(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-8938-01

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: [ca1943]-1944

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

Reference: PA11-226

Description: Lantern slides of the Campbell, Auckland, and Kermadec Islands, and their flora and fauna. Photographed by John Sorensen from 1943 to 1944. Quantity: 173 b&w lantern slide(s).

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1429-155

Description: Bulbinella rossii (Chrysobactron rossii), Campbell Island, photographed by Philip George Poppleton about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: 27 Feb 1942-19 Jan 1943, 21 Jan 1943-16 Jan 1944, 26 Apr-20 Nov 1944, 17 Jan 1944-10 Dec 1947

By: Sorensen, John Herman, 1905-1982

Reference: MS-Group-1495

Description: Contains diaries kept by Jack Sorensen while based as a coastwatcher during World War II on the Islands of Campbell, Auckland and Kermadec. The diaries contain a record of the activities of Sorensen and the other coastwatchers, and also notes of the flora and fauna surveyed on the Islands. Quantity: 5 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Provenance: Material was originally located at the Department of Conservation (DOC) Science Publishing department. See Archives NZ report on JH Sorensen papers, 2004/5120, in back file Transfers: Material transferred from the Photographic Archive to Manuscripts and Archives, 7 April 2006 (PH-2006-05) - The diaries contain cross references to the photographs held by the Photographic Archive.

Date: 1942-1945

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

Reference: PA12-5682

Description: Slides of sea birds, seals, and plants, Campbell Island. Photographed by John Sorensen from 1942 to 1945. Quantity: 8 colour original transparency/ies mounted in glass with aluminium frames.

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: 1945-1946

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department. Aerodromes Branch

Reference: MS-Papers-5555

Description: Comprises report of survey in World War II by Aerodromes Services Branch of Public Works Department to the Auckland and Campbell islands between 1941 and 1945. The report gives the background to the expedition, describes radio communication, survey work, harbours, Campbell Is meteorological station, and flights to Auckland and Campbell islands. A history of the islands is given, a description of the geology, vegetation and wild life, meteorological tables, coastwatching instructions and personnel. Also included are photographs taken by members of the expedition and from the Turnbull Library collections. The expedition was basically a coastwatching exercise; `the men had to be volunteers, discreet, loyal, with nerves good enough to stand an encounter with a hostile landing party armed with machine guns or the prospect of being marooned on an uninhabited island...' Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs (photocopy) Photographs and maps in the text are not very clear as they are photocopies of an earlier photocopying process

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.

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1429-157

Description: Sphagnum, Campbell Island, photographed by Philip George Poppleton about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: 1942-1945

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

Reference: PA12-5681

Description: Slides of sea birds, seals, and plants, Campbell Island. Photographed by John Sorensen from 1942 to 1945. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies mounted in glass with aluminium frames.

Date: 1942-1945

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

Reference: PAColl-8938-12

Description: Photographs of sea birds, seals and plants from the Campbell and Auckland Islands. Photographed by John Sorensen from 1942 to 1945. Quantity: 20 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1427-100

Description: Lichen (Cladia retipora) reindeer moss, Campbell Island photographed by George Poppleton in about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1427-097

Description: Lichen (Cladia retipora) reindeer moss, Campbell Island photographed by George Poppleton in about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1427-101

Description: Lichen (Cladia retipora) reindeer moss, Campbell Island photographed by George Poppleton in about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1427-098

Description: Lichen (Cladia retipora) reindeer moss, Campbell Island photographed by George Poppleton in about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: [Circa 1960s?]

Reference: PA1-q-050

Description: Views of Campbell Island flora and fauna, including seals, sealions, albatrosses, and penguins. Album created by Ian Stratford Stewart. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album in teal-blue vinyl ring-binder, images attached to pages with self-adhesive strips, 30 x 26 cm