Pacific

British interests in the Western Pacific Ocean, 1887

Australia

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1 January 1887

9 October 2012

Location

Australia

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9 October 2012

British interests in the Western Pacific Ocean, detail from larger map 'Australia and the Pacific Islands', in C. Kinloch Cooke, Australian defences and New Guinea, compiled from the papers of the late Major-General Sir Peter Scratchley, R.E., K.C.M.G., London, Macmillan and Co, 1887

Japanese map of the Pacific, 1942

Australia

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1 January 1942

6 December 2010

Location

Australia

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6 December 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, including Queensland coast, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Japanese title is ‘Bismarck to Caledonia’). Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1943, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations in the Coral Sea and Queensland. A map in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1^st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was displayed at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane, 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Pacific neighbours, 1857

1 January 1857

2 December 2010

London

Charles Wilson

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Part of the east coast of Australia from Moreton Bay to Torres Strait, New Guinea, New Britain and Fiji Islands, 1857. Published by Charles Wilson, J.W. Norie & Co at the Navigation Warehouse and Naval Academy, London. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Pandanus basket, Vanuatu, 1883-1900

Pandanus basket, Vanuatu, 1883-1900

Location

Australia

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E5616

Queensland Museum

Penama, Vanuatu

23 November 2010

Australia

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Pacific Islander wooden club, c1870s

Pacific Islander wooden club, c1870s

Location

Australia

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E6970

Queensland Museum

Malampa, Vanuatu

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

1100mm

137mm

Australian South Sea Islanders

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Location

Solomon Islands

E4508

Queensland Museum

Solomon Islands

1 January 1884

28 October 2010

Solomon Islands

Dimensions

1412mm

413mm

Solomon Island axe with decorative handle, 1883-1900

Solomon Island axe with decorative handle, 1883-1900

Locations

Makira

Solomon Islands

E310

Queensland Museum

Makira, Solomon Islands

28 October 2010

Makira

Solomon Islands

Neighbours: Asia and the Pacific

Queensland, the Pacific and Asia share a distinctive geography and history. Queensland is geographically part of the Pacific, separated only by the boundaries of modern nation states.