Various themes in photographic collections from the Kununurra Historical Society Digital Archive. These
links will take you to the "Set" Page on Flickr and away from this
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A set from KHS digital archives of a
1911 expedition made by Charles Price
Conigrave and party mostly to the west
side of Cambridge Gulf. 100 years ago in
the East Kimberley.
These photographs were in the photo
collection of artist Elizabeth Durack
and appear here thanks to the Clancy and
Durack families. |
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In 1921 the WA and SA government
astronomers determined the WA/NT border
on the ground using radio time signals,
which then, was new technology.
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Also see the KHS presentation on this recent research into
the 1921
WA/NT Border Determinations
that were happening exactly 90 years ago is presented in the form of
a 1921 Western Mail news article about this expedition to determine
the WA/NT border on the ground. The article has been corrected by
KHS on the National Library of Australia's “Trove” site, then
re-formatted on the KHS website with photographs from the (new) KHS
– 1921 CM Hambidge (late, former SA Surveyor General) Family
Collection, interwoven with excerpts from the diary of MP Durack,
thanks to Kevin Markey and Patsy Millett. View the innovative
interpretation of this history of the 1921
WA/NT Border Determinations
from
http://www.kununurra.org.au/khs/research/1921-wa-nt-border-determinations
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Photographs from the Elizabeth Durack
collection show Governor of Western
Australia visited the newly completed
obelisk that marks the WA/NT border on
the ground.
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1944 survey for the Ord River Main Dam. Dam Site No.1 was eventually
rejected as the preferred site circa 1960, for the No. 2 dam site, where
the Ord River main dam was built between 1968 and 1972 and now holds
back Lake Argyle.
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