Great Barrier Reef

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2593

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2603

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1928-1979

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Yonge, Charles Maurice (Sir), 1899-1986

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2844-2846

Description: Selected records relating to Sir Maurice Yonge's travel and research in Australia, especially on the Great Barrier Reef, and to Indonesia and Singapore; also correspondence with scientific colleagues Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 3 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1994

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2602

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1903-1967

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2643

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2595

Description: Includes letter from Leonard Darwin to his mother, undated, in which he describes the voyage to Lyttelton on board the Merope. Darwin was travelling as a cabin passenger Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1959 - 1963

By: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994; McLaren & Company Pty Ltd; Queensland Government Tourist Bureau

Reference: D-001-037

Description: Poster promoting the Great Barrier Reef as a tourist destination, showing a black and white striped fish with yellow fins, swimming by bright orange coral and a volute shellfish. Dated from website versions of other copies of this poster in Australian libraries. Other Titles - The Great Barrier Reef; longspined butterfly-fish & Heron Island volute Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph on poster 1000 x 640 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-113

Description: The torn-off cover of the School Magazine, showing several examples of striped fish with large decorative fins For an earlier printed version lacking text, see B-131-13-098 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 173 x 128 mm

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-094

Description: Tropical fish, cowrie and starfish among corals Probably drawn to illustrate The School Magazine, New South Wales Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 149 x 123 mm

Date: 1965

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-098

Description: Several examples of striped fish with large decorative fins Drawn as a cover illustration for the School Magazine, New South Wales, April 1965. For final printed version see B-131-13-113 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 173 x 128 mm

Date: 1955-1983

By: Scott, Malcolm George, 1925-

Reference: MSZ-1754

Description: Scrapbook of travel related material, including ephemera, typescripts, photographs, correspondence, relating to "familiarisation travel" undertaken by Malcolm George Scott as a function of his work as a New Zealand travel agent in the period 1955 to 1983, and later travel in conjunction with Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand and Travel Association of New Zealand. Comprises items relating to travel to Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Great Barrier Reef, Hayman Island, Melbourne, London, Philippines, United States of America, Noumea, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and New Zealand. Includes items relating to: Airlines: - TEAL - Tasman Empire Airways Ltd - New Zealand National Airways Corporation - Qantas - Ansett Ana - BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation - Malayan Airways - Air New Zealand - Pan Am - Pan American World Airways - Singapore Airlines Limited Shipping companies: - The Oceanic Steamship Company - The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, including 'RMS Rangitoto' Items, including menus, relating to accommodation providers: - Hotel Rex - Kings Cross Sydney - Lennons Hotel; and Lennons Broadbeach Hotel - Surfers Paradise Hotel, Queensland, including American Bar - Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London - The Mitre Hotel, Hampton Court - Rio Vista Lodge, Laguna, Philippines - Royal Lancaster, London - The May Fair Hotel, Berkeley Square, London Entertainment venues: - Her Majesty's Theatre Organisations: - The Overseas Visitors Club, London - Australian Federation of Travel Agents Also includes newspaper clipping with image of Malcolm George Scott and others meeting Lord Freyberg in England, dated 24 October 1962. Two scrapbooks donated by the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand - MSZ-1755 and MSZ-1756. Title supplied by Library. Malcolm George Scott MNZITT, was President of the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand, 1971-1973. Quantity: 1 volume(s) scrapbook. Physical Description: Scrapbook with passport, photographs, typescripts, manuscripts, correspondence, printed matter, and ephemera, mounted and laid in, 34 x 28.5 cm. Provenance: Donated to the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand by Hughla Scott on behalf of her husband Malcolm George Scott in 2008.

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2607

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

By: Strehlow, Theodor George Henry, 1908-1978

Reference: PA12-8823

Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows a copy of a photograph of totemic markings on a group of Aboriginal totemic actors from the Southern Aranda area taken by T.G.H. Strehlow; Australian plants; corals, anemone guard fish, starfish, clams, crayfish and a giant hermit crab on Great Barrier Reef; and Green Island. These are followed by copies of maps of Australia including the East Coast, oceans around Australia and New Zealand, and maps showing climate, vegetation and population of Australia. The slides are not from Mr Williams' original numbered sequence. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: October 1962

From: Yaldwyn, John Cameron, 1929-2005 :Photographs of the Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1741

Description: A photographic record of the Australian Museum's Swain Reefs Expedition of October 1962 photographed by Anthony Healy. Photographs of the Expedition's ship, M Y `Congoola.' Shows scientists at work on the reefs. Portraits of marine life including corals and sea birds. There are photographs of members of the expedition. These include - Donald McMichael (Scientist). John Yaldwin (Scientist). Gilbert Whitley (Scientist). Harold Cogger (Scientist). Len R Thomas (Scientist). Fred Rost (M D). Donald Wilson (Engineer). Anthony Healy (Photographer). Athol d'Ombrain (?). Bob Poulson (?). Norman Thomas (Captain). Includes a note from "Tony" to John (presumably John Yaldwyn). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2592

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1809 - 1831

By: Batty, Robert, -1848

Reference: B-097-005

Description: A three-masted ship about to go beneath the waves, with sailors climbing down ropes into life-boats below, and many already in the water. Proof before letterpress, for the illustration in Barrow, John. The eventful history of the mutiny and piratical seizure of H. M. S. Bounty. opp. p. 187. The Pandora under Captain Edwards, pursued the Bounty and its mutineers in 1792. The mutineers they had succeeded in capturing were shackled aboard the ship and went down with her when she foundered off the coast of Australia. The wreck was discovered in the 1980s. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 105 x 150 mm

Date: 1808 - 1803 - 1809

By: Jurgensen, Jorgen, 1780-1841

Reference: C-015-006

Description: A night scene with the two ships heeled over beyond the reef in the background, and men on low rocky reefs in the middle ground hauling objects from the ships. There are futher men in a lifeboat rowing towards the reef in the foreground Jorgensen is assumed to be the artist and Hooker the dedicatee. This is supported by the fact that Jorgensen was confined aboard the hulk Bahama at Chatham in 1909, and while there provided illustrations for a biographical manuscript that Hooker was preparingl. In addition, the handwriting below the image matches that below an image by Jorgensen reproduced to illustrate the article about him in Joan Kerr's 'Dictionary of Australian artists ... to 1870 (Melbourne, 1992, p. 415) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with William Jackson Hooker Esqr below the title and Joergen Joergensen [with umlauts over the os] lower right Wreckreef, or Flinders' Reef, is part of Australia's Barrier Reef. Date of loss of ships Aug 17, 1803 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pen and ink 495 x 594 mm

Date: 2014

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0030348

Description: Shows a turtle telling fish on the Great Barrier Reef about what Barack Obama wants for them. The fish replies "Such arrogance! We need to vanish to encourage him to clean up his own back yard..." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).