Summary

In the background of this photograph of the mouth of the Fraser River, King Island can be seen the huge stranded spar of a shipwreck. The spar extended from a mast to hold the extended bottom sail.

One of thirty-two black and white photographs in an album [two are loose] taken by A J Campbell during a Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria expedition to King Island in November 1887. The album also includes maps of King Island in the inside front cover and back page and numerous newspaper clippings relating to the expedition. One of the newspaper clippings, written by one of the members of the party, documents the mission of the expedition thus: 'It is our intention, before the introduction of numerous foreign plants and animals rendered it impossible to do so, to ascertain as precisely as we could in the short time at our disposal the fauna and flora indigenous to the island.'

Description of Content

View of the mouth of a river. In the distance is a huge stranded spar from a shipwreck. There is a man standing at left with two horses and two dogs.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph

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