Cast aways on Emirau Island

Place Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Emirau Island
Accession Number 305623
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, Emirau Island
Date made c December 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Some of the passengers and crew among the 496 survivors who had been cast away on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago after their merchant ships were sunk by German Raiders Komet and Orion in the pacific. They are standing outside their palm leaf shelter.

(Naval Historical Collection).