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Escape Cliffs
Post Office at Escape Cliffs Settlement. Escape Cliffs Settlement was the site of the fourth attempt to establish a settlement in the Northern Territory. It was situated near the mouth of the Adelaide River, north east of Darwin. It was abondoned in 1867 following conflicts with the local Marananggu people. The man with a gun is Clement Young, clerk and accountant to the Northern Territory Survey in 1865-66.
Escape Cliffs
Escape Cliffs, Northern Territory. Part of settlement. Escape Cliffs Settlement was the site of the fourth attempt to establish a settlement in the Northern Territory. It was situated near the mouth of the Adelaide River, north east of Darwin. It was abondoned in 1867 following conflicts with the local Marananggu people. The photograph shows the settlement buildings behind fences and the tropical vegetation growing all around on the banks of the Adelaide River.
Gawler
Old Post Office and Telegraph Office the base for the original Adelaide to Darwin telegraph line.
Katherine Police Station
Katherine Police Station. Katherine is 320 kilometres south east of Darwin. It began as an outpost on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in 1872 and later in 1889 gold mining was established north of the town at Mount Todd. The photograph shows two small buildings with wrap around verandahs set on a slight rise in an area prone to flooding.
"Dort" Cars, Mount Gambier
Cyril and Murray Aunger with their driving party in three "Dort" cars at Mount Gambier when returning to Adelaide after completing their Darwin trip.
Composite of Northern Territory views
Photographic composite of drawings by W. Fisher: featuring Katherine Station, Dr Brown's expedition crossing the Newcastle Waters, & Port Darwin from the anchorage. See B 9578/1 - B 9578/3 to view individual images.
Brock's Creek
Brocks Creek gold mine about 60-70 miles south of Darwin situated near Pine Creek. Gold was discovered there in 1872. Various buildings are numbered on this photograph and the details on the back are : 1) Old chemical pump shaft. 2) No. 1 whip shaft. 3) No. 2 whip shaft. 4) No. 3 whip shaft. 5) new shaft and tramway to battery. 6) timber shacks. 7) manager's house and office. 8) old pumping engine. 9) saw mill. 10) dam. 11) huts for Europeans. 12) tramline to railway.
Anthony Lagoon
Police Station at Anthony Lagoon. Anthony Lagoon is a cattle station on the Barkly Tableland and is south east of Darwin. A police station was established here in 1895 to keep watch over the cattle passing through the area and to prevent stolen stock crossing the border between Queensland and the Northern Territory. The police station was submerged in the rising floods in 1891. The photograph shows three buildings with adjacent stock yards. The police work was notoriously boring.
Aeroplane wreck salvage
Transporting the wrecked plane "Monospar" from Allawolla, Wood Green Station to Alice Springs. The pilot was Michael Mather for the experimental Air Mail Service from Adelaide to Darwin.
Northern Territory
Surrounding country near Darwin.
Aboriginal Camp
Aboriginal camp in the Northern Territory.
Palmerston Saw Mill
A residence and Saw Mill in Bennett STreet, Darwin.
Peake Telegraph Station
Peake Telegraph Station off the Oodnadatta Track in South Australia. The Overland Telegraph Line was opened between 1870-72 to open up communication between Port Augusta and Darwin. The owner of Peake Station was Ernest Courteney Kempe.
Peake Telegraph Station
Peake Telegraph Station was completed in 1872 as one of 12 repeater stations established between Adelaide and Darwin. Peake stands just south of Oodnadatta. It is estimated that 36,000 poles and 3,200 kilometres of wire were used in the making of the communication network. This photograph from the 1880's of Peake shows the blacksmith workshop, the Telegraph Station, Bagot's Station and Mount Kingston Range in the background
Peake Telegraph Station
Peake Telegraph Station was completed in 1872 as one of 12 repeater stations established between Adelaide and Darwin. Peake stands just south of Oodnadatta. It is estimated that 36,000 poles and 3,200 kilometres of wire were used in the making of the communication network. This photograph shows groups of people standing in front of the Telegraph Station.
Railway Cutting, Pichi Richi
Men working on the Railway Cutting, Pichi Richi Pass which was opened in 1879 and was part of the first stage of the Great Northern Railway intended to link Port Augusta to Darwin
Railway Cutting, Pichi Richi
Men working on the Railway Cutting, Pichi Richi Pass which was opened in 1879 and was part of the first stage of the Great Northern Railway intended to link Port Augusta to Darwin
Playford Club Hotel, Pine Creek
[General description] Two buggies, each drawn by a pair of horses, stand in front of the hotel building, a low single storey structure built from corrugated iron and with a wide verandah. Governor Kintore is wearing a solar topee and poses by the buggy on the left. He arrived in Darwin on March 31st, 1891 on the steamer 'Chingtu' to begin his visit the Northern Territory. Here he is leaving for the long trip overland back to Adelaide, accompanied by Dr. E.C. Sterling. [On back of photograph] 'Playford Club Hotel / April 9, 1891 / Lord Kintore and Dr. E.C. Stirling leaving Pine Creek on an overland trip to Adelaide' (Another hand) 'Lord Kintore is standing by the left hand buggy and E.C. Stirling by the right. Signed E.S. Booth / 25/9/1967'.
Telegraph Station, Pine Creek
Telegraph Station, Pine Creek. By 1873 a telegraph repeater station and police camp had been established at Pine Creek. Prior to the this, during the construction of the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin, gold was discovered triggering another gold rush. The town rapidly grew and by the 1890s up to fifteen mines were operating in the area. The photograph shows the wooden building with its iron roof set in a garden of banana palms and other tropical plants
Point Charles Lighthouse
Point Charles Lighthouse (Northern Territory). Since settlement in 1870, the port at Darwin had always been difficult to navigate. After intensive lobbying by mariners, the South Australian Government began construction of the Lighthouse in 1892. The light began operating in 1893, showing a green, white and red light. The Lightkeepers cottages are made of galvanised iron, with wooden floors and surrounded by verandahs. A group comprising an European man [possibly an official] and boy, and some Aboriginal people, are posed under gum trees.
Point Charles Lighthouse
Point Charles Lighthouse near Port Darwin, N.T. Light (1st Order) exhibited 1 February, 1893. Focal plane of light 121 feet above highwater mark. Distance the light was visible, about 18 miles.
Ketches, Port Adelaide
Ketches "Florence Maud", and "Betty Joan", at Port Adelaide in June 1938. "Florence Maud" carried 23 tons and was built in Tasmania in1887 by Thomas Bennet senior. Grain was loaded onto the ketches at Pine Point using two Clydesdales pulling a scoop. "Betty Joan" was built at Birkinhead in 1933 weighing 78 tons. After being used by the Commonwealth Government during WWII she was washed up on the beach in Darwin during Cyclone Tracy in 1974.
Prince's Wharf, Port Adelaide
Prince's Wharf, near North Parade, Port Adelaide, showing the Adelaide Milling Co. buildings. According to a researcher, the small three mast schooner in the middle of the photo is the "Coringle", a member of the South Australian ketch fleet. Coringle was built in Sydney in 1909 and worked in SA until 1965, when she was sold to a Darwin buyer. She was broken up in 1971.
Sorrento Tramway
Sorrento Tramway, which operated between Sorrento and Sorrento Back Beach. The locomotive hauled tram is pictured at the Sorrento Back Beach Terminus. The tramcar features a "Mitchell's Whisky" advertisement.
H. M. S. Beagle
[General description] Small seascape sketch depicting the H. M. S. Beagle on the horizon. [On back of photograph] 'H.M.S. Beagle / Reeves and Sons / solid sketch block / 113 Cheapside London'.
Roper River
[General description] Officials at the Overland Telegraph camp posing next to a wagon. All of the men are wearing full beards and two of them are in tall riding boots. [On back of photograph] 'Overland Telegraph party / Taken by Capt. Sweet at the Roper River in 1872 / (see letter from Sir Chas. Todd to his wife, March 2, 1872.) From right to left : A.J. Mitchell / C. Todd / R.C. Patterson / J.A.G. Little (afterwards Pt. Darwin postmaster)'.
Railway running sheds
Railway running sheds at St., Leonards. These sheds for the North Terrace to Glenelg line were near Darwin Street
Southport
[General description] A pile of junk appears in the foreground of this view of the mooring at Southport which was a thriving river port during the Pine Creek gold rush of the 1870s. It was located at the junction of the Blackmore and Darwin rivers, one of which can be seen in the background. The three masts of a moored ship can be seen behind a storage shed. [On back of photograph] 'Southport, Northern Territory / August 1878'.
Southport jetty
[General description] Jetty and corrugated iron buildings on the banks of the Darwin River. A steam crane is operating at the end of the jetty, loading (or unloading) goods from a moored vessel. A group of Aboriginal people is watching on. [On back of photograph] 'Southport jetty / 187-'. Photographer was possibly Paul Foelsche.
Strangways Springs Station
[General description] Strangways Springs Telegraph Station. It was one of a number of repeater stations (at approximately 300 kilometre intervals) along the telegraph line between Adelaide and Darwin and was an important stopping place for travellers. It was abandoned in 1896 when William Creek on the new Central Australian Railway took over its services.