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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.