P01449.053 Accession Number: P01449.053

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NT. 1939-07. Lunch time for members of Darwin Mobile Force on a surveying exercise to Bynde Harbour, Northern Territory. On 1939-07-10 the survey party left Vestey's Barracks with rations and fuel for three weeks in a Ford three ton truck and a motorcycle. The party travelled south on the Adelaide road for approximately 120 kilometres then turned west to survey the land between the Adelaide road and the coast. After reaching the coast the party travelled north east and returned to Darwin.

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Accession Number
P01449.053
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
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Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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