Great Barrier Reef

Cape Grenville to Booby Island, 1945

Albany Island, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1945

30 June 2011

Location

Albany Island, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

30 June 2011

Sydney

Queensland Maritime Museum

Cape Grenville to Booby Island, 1945. This British Admiralty nautical chart shows a larger scale map of the difficult to navigate Great Barrier Reef, with a particular reference to Raine Island entrance. With shoals, reefs, small islands and ‘numerous sunken patches’, this map of the North Queensland coast shows the precarious waterways that had to be navigated to maintain survival. In the lower part of the map, near the dial showing the magnetic north, it states, ‘unexamined but considered dangerous navigation’. North of Albany Island Quetta Rock and the location of the wreck are marked. Interestingly, this map is also marked with the memory of shipwrecks when in the 1970s the map was used to mark the location of various wrecks. These included: the Quetta wreck , the wreck of HMS Pandora and a canon found on the Great Detached Reef. Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum

Fossicking on the exposed reef at low tide was one of the main activities for early holidaymakers, c1932. Collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Snorkellers explore corals at Tween Island, 1983. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Tourists diving from a pontoon on the Outer Barrier Reef, 1991. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

A snorkeller views the shallow corals at Heron Island, 1997. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Tourists snorkelling off Low Isles, 1996. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Tourists from the Coral Princess snorkelling at Nathan Reef, 2005. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Green Island observatory, c1950. Postcard of an artist’s impression of the underwater observatory at Green Island. Private Collection

Private Collection

A group of tourists turtle riding at Heron Island, 1938. Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 65648

A group of visitors prepare for turtle riding at Mon Repos, c1930. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image API-100-0001-0022