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Title: Landing place of Captain Cook, Erromango, Vanuatu, 1903
Creator: Gunn, William, missionary, New Hebrides, 1853-1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1903
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
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Description: “Landing place of Captain Cook, Erromanga (Traitors head in background).” View of a man and boy on a beach at Cook Bay on the eastern side of Erromango. Captain Cook landed on the island on the 4th August 1774, but after the islanders attempted to seize the boat the marines opened fire on them. Traitors head Peninsula lies north of the bay and consists of three volcanoes.
Type: image
Format: Photographic prints, 14.6 x 9.6 cm.
Identifier: impa-a-nls-75654132-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79900
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75654132-1.jpg
Subject: Beaches
Historic sites
Landscapes (environments)
Time Period: 1903
Place: Erromango
Oceania
Tafea Province
Vanuatu
Source: Acc.7548/F/20 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75654130 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
Photographs of Aneityum, New Hebrides, South Sea Islands taken by the Rev. Dr. Gunn
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