Chris Randall, Heliport, Dili, East Timor

Place Asia: Timor, Dili
Accession Number ART91187.094
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 27.4 x 34.7 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pastel on paper
Maker Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Place made East Timor: Dili
Date made 23 December 1999
Conflict East Timor, 1999-2013
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Chris Randall sitting in a room at the heliport, Dili, East Timor, three yellow cylinders of gas behind him at right. A window behind him overlooks the airfield, with two men seen working at left and a helicopter in right background. 'The heliport is on the site of Dili's old airport, used by the Japanese in the Second World War. A new airport has since been built at Komoro, near the coast, but the old airfield was used by INTERFET's helicopters. The old main runway is now the site of a transit camp for soldiers arriving in or leaving Timor.' Peter Londey, Military Historian, AWM, May 2000. Page from large sketchbook no. 2.

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