Assorted publications on Montague Island, Australia, c.1912-1959

Containers:

Box 20 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 245

Content Summary:

Photocopy "A voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803..." by Matthew Flinders, 1814.

Photocopies of map portions from "A reduction of Captain Cook's original chart of [... obscured] East Australian Coast- [...obscured]: 1770" and unidentified early map of East Coast of Australia around "Bateman Bay".

Photocopy "Exploration of East Coast of Australia". Chapter VIII. In "Cook's journal - first voyage: April 1770."

Photocopy of two published works "The Montague Island Gullery" by A.F. Basset Hull and "Avifauna of New South Wales Islands" by A.F. Baset Hull. Both works appear to have been photocopied from the same unidentified publication.

Photocopy of pages from "The Australian museum magazine" including the "Editorial" and photographs of Montague Island. Photocopy annotated as "pictures taken pub 1911".

A3-sized photocopies of photographs showing unidentified rocky coastline and lighthouse (Montague Island, Australia?).

Buff Eurobodall Shire Council envelope labelled "Montagu Island" and addressed to Alec Costin, "Widgett", Bodalla, 2545. Labelled on reverse as "1959".

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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