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: 1955-1989

By: Poppleton, Philip George, 1922-2002

Reference: PAColl-5768

Description: Photographs of Campbell Island taken by Mr Poppleton while leader of team which established the meteorological station on Campbell Island in the 1950s, and in the course of two trips, one through the southern part of the South Island, and, in 1989, another around the east coast of the North Island. Quantity: 2 album(s). Transfers: The Campbell Island photographs are from 35mm slides already housed in the collection, at PA12-1423 to PA12-1429..

Date: ca 1959

From: Poppleton, Philip George :Photographs of Campbell Island

Reference: PA12-1429-154

Description: Rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes crestatus crestatus), Campbell Island, photographed by Philip George Poppleton 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: PA12-1427-119

Description: Female Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), Campbell Island, photographed by Philip 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: PA12-1428-134

Description: Southern royal albatrosses (Diomedia epomphora epomphora) feeding, Campbell Island. Photographed by Philip 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: PA12-1427-109

Description: Male New Zealand sea lion (Neophoca hookeri) with his "harem" of females. Photographed on Campbell Island by Philip George Poppleton about 1959 Quantity: 1 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: 35mm colour slide

Date: n d

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-357

Description: Includes photographic prints and slides Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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: 1803-1860

From: Jan Grainger : Research notes

Reference: fMS-Papers-1964-2

Description: Chiefly relate to early shipping in Pacific, especially whaling in New Zealand waters; derived from published sources, newspapers and ms logs. Include chronological lists of ships in New Zealand, 1803-1824, 1895-1931. Research notes (newspaper extracts, etc re shipping, etc); abstracts and acquittances of salaries of surveyors' parties on Kohumaru Survey and Waitakere Survey, 1859-1860 (signed by Charles Heaphy) and Florence's Claim, 1860 (signed by D H Lusk); Province of Auckland voucher for survey work in Matu Block (Charles Heaphy), 1859; abstract and acquittance of salary for D H Lusk employed by Waste Land Department, 1860; Province of Auckland Waste Lands Department statement of wages of chainmen and labourers working at Waitakerei, Kohumaru and Waingaroa, 1-31 May 1860; list of emigrants embarked on `Egmont' 1855; Province of Auckland pay abstract and acquittance roll of Armed Police, 7-13 Jul 1861; shipping Campbell Island. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1960-1961

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-296

Date: 1942-1945

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

Reference: PAColl-8938-09

Description: Photographs of sea birds and seals from the Campbell and Auckland Islands. Photographed by John Sorensen from 1942 to 1945. Quantity: 30 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1957-1958

From: Falla, Robert Alexander (Sir), 1901-1979 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-2366-293

Date: [1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-17

Description: Close-up photograph of nineteen albatross grouped together on flat area covered with grass on Campbell Island Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 6010. Albatross. Campbell Island. Burton Bros, Dunedin; Mount recto - bottom left - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15 x 20 cm on mount 21.1 x 29 cm

Date: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1803-1824, 1855-1861, 1895-1931 (197-?)

By: Grainger, Janet Helen, active 1979-1982

Reference: MS-Group-1147

Description: Chiefly relate to early shipping in Pacific, especially whaling in New Zealand waters; derived from published sources, newspapers and ms logs. Include chronological lists of ships in New Zealand, 1803-1824, 1895-1931. Passenger list of `Egmont' 1855; Auckland Provincial Council salary warrants for surveying and police departments, 1859-1861. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.07 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript

Date: 1943

By: Fleming, Margaret Alison (Lady), 1917-2000

Reference: PAColl-3276

Description: Quantity: 182 b&w original photographic print(s) and. 2 item(s) of photographic ephemera in one box.

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: [ca 1904]

By: Gerstenkorn, Karl Andreas, -1906; Grierson, P, active 1980

Reference: PAColl-5946

Description: The inscriptions on the photographs were made by the donor's paternal grandmother, Petrina Williamson who was the youngest sister (hence the "my brother" comment) of the Peter Williamson in these photos. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-114160 to 114162 Quantity: 3 b&w copy negative(s).