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Fanning Island. September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board watching as the cable ship Iris carries out repairs to the damaged communications cable. Fanning Island was a small island south of ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. One of the Officers from the German ship Nurnberg (seen in the background) on the beach on Fanning Island. Directly behind the Officer are the boats which carried ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Part of the interior of the office of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island showing a badly damaged condenser box, cable recorder and test board. German ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and some German Marines from the German ship Nurnberg standing on the beach of Fanning Island, after the communications cable had ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. One of the least damaged cable instruments in the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after German Marines tried to destroy the instruments ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Some of the more delicate instruments in the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after German Marines tried to destroy them with axes. The ..

Loading jetty, Ocean Island, Kiribati, 1920-1929

A German landing party from the Nurnberg standing beside a crane and rail equipment on Fanning Island. The island was the site of a central Pacific telephone cable relay station. The party cut ..

Mrs. Goward going for joy ride on a light rail dolly, Ocean Island, Kiribati, 1900-1917

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Part of the exterior of the Engine Room of the Pacific Cable Board on Fanning Island after it had been destroyed by German Marines from the Nurnberg. The Nurnberg ..

Fanning Island. September 1914. The interior of the destroyed Engine Room on Fanning Island. In the background is the destroyed switch board, and in the foreground the destroyed dynamo (a type of ..

Fanning Island. 7 September 1914. Staff of the Pacific Cable Board and German Marines from the German ship Nurnberg on the wharf on Fanning Island. The Nurnberg (partly obscured in the background) ..