Dive helmet, pre 1939

This diving helmet was used by deep sea divers in the early twentieth century.

Location

Australia
H3866
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010
Australia

Fragment of World War II Japanese Zero Fighter Plane

Fragment of World War II Japanese Zero Fighter Plane

Location

Australia
R5759
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
110mm
150mm
65mm

Chair made by prisoner-of-war, 1942-45

Chair made by prisoner-of-war, 1942-45

Location

Australia
H46835
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
755mm
650mm
495mm

A Japanese prostitute and an Aboriginal woman in Northern Australia, The Bulletin, 7 January 1904.

Pearling became the largest industry in far north Queensland in the 1890s and had a massive impact on coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Thursday Island Cemetery, 2009. Many Japanese headstones are reminders of the pearling industry. Digital images, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

A bomb exploded at the Iwasaki resort at Yeppoon on 29 November 1980. It ripped a large crater in an unfinished block of holiday units, causing damage estimated at $1 million.

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