Photographs taken by Charles Fleming during trips in New Zealand

Date
1933-1937
Reference
PA1-o-1321
Description

Trip to Lake Waikaremoana and the Ureweras, March 1935. The sequence includes views of the lake, native forest, the meeting house at Te Whaiti, and huts associated with Elsdon Best.

Visit to W H Guthrie Smith at Tutira, March 1937. This includes a photograph of Guthrie-Smith and another of the Tutira homestead with Guthrie-Smith and E G Turbot walking in the garden.

Trip to Tokomaru Bay, February 1935. Photographs include Fishermen, Mount Hikurangi, Kiritahi Homestead, the Raukumaru Range, the Kopuapounamu River, the Maungakariki Stream, and other geological features.

Photographs taken during a Geology II camp at Kawhia, Easter 1935. Shows student groups on a beach, Tainui Rock, and Albatross Point.

A view of the coast and the old copper mine building, Kawau Island.

Auckland University College Field Club's trip to to the Noises Islands, 1935. Depicts students collecting snail shells and grouped on a beach, and a view of a rocky islet from a cliff top. The locations depicted are Otata Island, Maria Island, and David Rocks.

Auckland University Science Society picnic, and the Auckland Conchological Club's trip to Rangitoto Island, 1935.

Auckland Univerity College Field Club's camp in the Huia Valley, May 1935.

Views of Rangitoto Island and the Hauraki Gulf. This sequence includes photographs of Black-Backed and Red Billed gulls, their nests, eggs and chicks.

Charles Fleming and a group of friends climbing on ice.

Poor Knights Islands showing landscape, vegetation including Xeronema in flower, and a small penguin.

Views of Waiheke Island which include Squadron Bay, a fossil bed at Oneroa, and Matiata.

Gulls photographed on Motutapu Island, November 1933.

A trip to Great Barrier Island. This sequence includes views of Port Fitzroy, a warship, Grave islet, Mount Camel, rocks and islets called "the Grey group," Wellington Head, Nelson Island and other islands at the entrance to Fitzroy Harbour, Whanagaparapara Harbour, Mount Hobson, Arid Island, Mohuki Island, and a gannet colony.

Other photographs of bird life include shags perching in trees, gulls and pigeon and kaka in bush on Hen Island, a fantail and nest, shearwater and petrel burrows, and flocks of seabirds on a rocky coast.

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

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Part of
Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir), 1916-1987 :Photographs relating to family and scientific interests
Format
1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs
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