Japanese

Dive helmet, pre 1939

This diving helmet was used by deep sea divers in the early twentieth century.

Location

Australia

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H3866

Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Fragment of World War II Japanese Zero Fighter Plane

Fragment of World War II Japanese Zero Fighter Plane

Location

Australia

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R5759

Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

110mm

150mm

65mm

Chair made by prisoner-of-war, 1942-45

Chair made by prisoner-of-war, 1942-45

Location

Australia

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H46835

Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

755mm

650mm

495mm

A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman in Northern Australia, The Bulletin, 7 January 1904.

Pearling

Pearling became the largest industry in far north Queensland in the 1890s and had a massive impact on coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Thursday Island Cemetery, 2009. Many Japanese headstones are reminders of the pearling industry. Digital images, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Iwasaki project

A bomb exploded at the Iwasaki resort at Yeppoon on 29 November 1980. It ripped a large crater in an unfinished block of holiday units, causing damage estimated at $1 million.

Japanese

Dive helmet, pre 1939

Location

Fragment of World War II Japanese Zero Fighter Plane

Location

Chair made by prisoner-of-war, 1942-45

Location

A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman, The Bulletin, 1904

Pearling

Thursday Island Cemetery, 2009

Iwasaki project