Macquarie Island 1968: A new industry arrives...
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Macquarie Island 1968: Cinders has the Slipper
Fog Bow, Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island 1968: From the old days
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Macquarie Island 1968: Beach scene
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Macquarie Island 1968: Rockhopper penguins
Macquarie Island 1968: Southern Giant Petrel
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Macquarie Island 1968: Magical Sunrise
Macquarie Island 1968: The Biologist and the Weka
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Goodbye Rachel: Macquarie Island 1968
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ANARE Station at Macquarie Island, December 1967
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Macquarie Island 1968: The Gratitude ...
From an old slide. Macquarie Island has had many shipwrecks over the years. Shortly after the island was first discovered in 1810, the Sydney Gazette carried the report of the discovery and "... several pieces of wreck of a large vessel on this island, apparently very old and high up in the grass ...". Unfortunately the sealing gangs used any timber as firewood for rendering seal blubber, so any traces of that earlier mystery ship had long disappeared before we visited. How fascinating to have known its age and origin, and what a fertile source for speculation!
In subsequent years many ships were wrecked on the island, the most recent prior to our visit being the "Gratitude" which was caught on a lee shore by an easterly gale in late 1898. This section of keel is all that remained in our time - and that, we expected, would be the last shipwreck there. What a surprise when the news bulletins in late 1988 carried reports that our own ship, the "Nella Dan" also dragged her anchor in an easterly gale and, after being stranded on the rocks near the Station, was finally hauled off and scuttled near the island.
In subsequent years many ships were wrecked on the island, the most recent prior to our visit being the "Gratitude" which was caught on a lee shore by an easterly gale in late 1898. This section of keel is all that remained in our time - and that, we expected, would be the last shipwreck there. What a surprise when the news bulletins in late 1988 carried reports that our own ship, the "Nella Dan" also dragged her anchor in an easterly gale and, after being stranded on the rocks near the Station, was finally hauled off and scuttled near the island.
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