posted 22 Mar 2018, 09:44 by Kununurra Museum
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updated 24 Mar 2018, 21:06
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A
new collection placed online in March 2018 is from James Gooderson now
of Mornington Island, who was working with a PWD Survey Crew for the Ord
River Irrigation Area 1960-1962 and was on the PWD Tidal Power Survey
along the Kimberley Coast in 1963. A great collection that is relevant
to the current push for renewable energy in Australia.
Pictured to right - 1961 - Old Kimberley Research Station - Carlton
Reach - A prospective buyer yours truly - Jim
Gooderson_KHS-2012-97-ap-a-P10-D (Image link goes to the KHS James
Gooderson Collection on Flickr)
1963 Tidal Power Survey of the Kimberley Coast
This
is a classic piece of 1963 history that is relevant to today's use of
renewable energy, showing part of the Kununurra Historical Society's Jim
Gooderson collection, from when he was on a PWD survey crew that was
making a survey of Tidal Power along the Kimberley Coast. A paper was
published by Public Works Department
Engineer, John Lewis, who was involved with the Ord River Diversion Dam
construction. John has kindly given KHS permission to re-publish his
paper, which we hope to have online shortly.
View Jim Gooderson's photographs of the 1963 Tidal Power Survey on the Kimberley Coast (Goes to the collection on Flickr).
1963
- Tidal Power survey - Secure Bay - West Kimberley - Robby on Tidal
Power survey_KHS-2012-97-cg-b-P10-D - James Gooderson Collection (Photo
Link goes to KHS Flickr Album)
The
Kununurra Historical Society collections on Flickr have had 500,000
image views in the past 15 months (since December 2016), which equates
to an average of more than 33,000 views each month. This now takes the
total image views of our Flickr collections to more than 2,500,000. All
of the KHS collections, including this latest collection are also
discoverable on the National Library of Australia's wonderful Trove
Search Engine. Try searching Kununurra on Trove (Pictures) from https://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=kununurra. |
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