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HOME

​This section contains an introduction - the National Library of Australia's Pandora Project & links to Subject Pages.
Title Pages are About Us, Latest News and No Relics No Pilgrims which outlines our ethos & objectives.

PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES 

Army Towns & Native Settlements in WW2
Subject Pages – Adelaide River Township [ANS], Batchelor, Koolpinya, Larrimah, Manbaloo, Mataranka [Snake Creek] & Pine Creek,
ARMY TOWNS & SETTLEMENTS
First Contact - A collection of accounts of first contact between Aboriginal people and outsiders.
FIRST CONTACT
HMS Beagle
Subject Pages - Watch Vessel No. 7 and Paglesham Parch Marks
HMAS Patricia Cam - The story of the sinking of the Pat Cam
Subject Pages - 75th Anniversary of the sinking - The Men & Their Families - Ship's Knee MH7 - Beatie's Yard - The Lady Yetive - The Sandy Sanford Story - Sanford & Pat Cam Memorial
HMAS PATRICIA CAM
Macassans - Trepang Fishermen from Indonesia - mostly based at Makassar on Sulawesi Island.
Subject Pages - ​Pobassoo Island - Sea Gypsies

Matther Flinders - The Long Way Home
Subject Pages - Flinder & HMS Cumberland
Miscellany - Assortment of oddities
Subject Pages - Capt. Cook Bad Hair Day
Mystery Objects - People send in images of their finds & we attempt to identify them.
MYSTERY OBJECTS
NT History in 100 Images - not looking promising
NT HISTORY in a HUNDRED IMAGES
NT Image Makers & Takers - Notable artists & photographers
Subject Pages - Paul Foelsche Centenary 2014 - NT Painters & Sketchers - William Westall
NT IMAGE MAKERS & TAKERS
OSL Beach Dating - Optically Stimulated Luminescence
OSL BEACH DATING
PM Papers, Notes & Insights
PM PAPERS, NOTES & INSIGHTS
Shell Mounds & Middens
SHELL MOUNDS & MIDDENS
Territory Treasures
​Subject Pages - Boustead Jar & Shell Dunes - Dundee Beach Swivel Gun
TERRITORY TREASURES
Top End Timeline - 
TOP END TIME LINE

ARNHEM LAND & BEYOND

This discovery of the Adelaide River by the men of the Beagle & subsequent attempt at settlement by the South Australian Government.
COBOURG PENINSULAR
Darwin Harbour - A notional cruise on Port Darwin from Cullen Bay to Frances Bay
​Subject Pages - Top End Heritage Park [Darwin Heritage Assets - Historic Statues & The Pre-fabrication of Australian History]
Channel Island Centenary Quarantine to Lazarette  -  ​Doctor's Gully - East Point Reserve - Goyder's Camp & Early Darwin - Government House {The Govt. House Gun} - Overland Telegraph & Undersea Cables - Naval Fuel Depot WW2 - Victoria Hotel - Wagait Beach - Z Special & Catalina Base.
DARWIN HARBOUR
Down The Track - Heritage Council Field Trip - Sept. 2014
DOWN THE TRACK
Elcho Island Portrait - A pictorial history of Elcho Island
Subject Pages - Elcho Past Muster - Workshop, Finds & Losses - Galiwin'ku Community
ELCHO ISLAND PORTRAIT
Gove Peninsular
Subject Pages - Catalina Beach WW2 - Control Tower Museum - Gove Airfield - Gunyangara - Heritage Rangers - Nhulunbuy township - Wurrawurrawuy Stone Pictures - Yirrkala
GOVE PENINSULAR
Gapuwiyak {Lake Evella)
Subject page - NE Arnhem Land community
GAPUWIYAK - LAKE EVELLA
Goulburn Island Centenary
GOULBURN ISLAND CENTENARY
Groote Eylandt
Subject Pages - Angurugu -  Bickerton Island - Emerald River - Umbakumba
GROOTE EYLANDT
Milingimbi
​Subject Pages - Rangers & WW2 Airstrip
Oenpelli - Gunbalanya
Subject Pages - Oenpelli Mission 1953 - 1985 - Oenpelli Mission the Early Days - Oenpelli the Buffalo Days with Paddy Cahill
OENPELLI - GUNBALANYA
Ramingining
Subject page - NE Arnhem Land community
RAMINGINING
Timor & Oecussi
TIMOR & OECUSSI
The TIWI Islands
Subject page - Bathurst Island MIssion - Carslow beach & the Dutch Landing in 1710 - Fort Dundas on Melville Island at Garden Point 1824-1829 - Snake Bay - Milikapiti community on Melville Island
- THE TIWI ISLANDS -
Wessel Islands
Subject Pages - The Painted Caves - Ancient Coins in Arnhem Land - Australians Bay - Hopeful Bay - Mary Bryant Story - Wessels 2018 - Wessel Islands Radar 312RS

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Publications & Articles
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
Contacts
CONTACTS
​The website is intended as a reference facility, primarily viewed on a desktop monitor. Images are large as the detail is important & copying simplified. Images are by Michael B. Owen except where stated. Pages currently under construction may be password protected to give the impression that something is actually happening. Some pages are still at the stage of being unconsolidated repositories for images, quotations and links to resources - others are aspirational - some are just curiosities.

Please assist with corrections & additional detail - it is important to get this history documented as it may be a long time before it is again accorded its due.