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Qantas Empire Airways DC3, taking on fuel at Jacksons Airstrip, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Local people on a Qantas Empire Airways flight to Manus Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Crater formed by the 1937 eruption of Mt Rakaia (Vulcan), Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Locals at the arrival of a Qantas Empire Airways DC3 flight, Kerowagi, Papua New Guinea

Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b 1845 :Banyan tree, Mallicolo. [ca 1888-1889]

Landing craft and World War II troops arriving at Nissan Island, Papua New Guinea

[Lister, Joseph Jackson, 1857-1927] :Solomon Island boy aged about 14. On the Wainui, going from Auckland to the Fiji Islands ... [ca 1888]

Letter

Piron, d after 1795 :Toubau, fils du roi des Iles des Amis. Piron delin., Copia sculp; Vouacece, habitant di Fidgi. Piron delin., Copia sculp. Dien scripsit. Atlas du voyage a la recherche de La Perouse. no. 29 [Paris; Chez Dabo, 1817]

Journal

Mt Lolobau, 3058 feet high, and Mt Ulawun (Father), 7376 feet high, New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Qantas Empire Airways, lighted-up aeroplane on the runway [at night?], Bulolo Airfield, Morobe, Papua New Guinea