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The "White House" brothel built in 1913. It's location is approximately the site of today's Tourism Bureau. It is a second version. The first one, built in 1902 was pulled down. It sat along the opposite shoreline of Isabel beach.
Peter Grimes alias "Aviator Gordon"
V E Mathew - Manning the Christmas Island Radio (Pic Courtesy Mary Mathew)
Tong Chee c1950
Chinese Head Man.
Was he caught between a rock and a hard place?
Partly restored photo.
Original NAA: N29, 16
The castaways thrown on the reefs of Christmas Island.
The shipwrecked Rear Admiral Ryk in sight of Christmas Island.
From the National Archives of Japan - Digital Archive
Map of coolie lines in Settlement
19th century Hungmen seal, Guangdong
Koah
Walter Oorloff c1908
V.E. Mathew standing in front of the re-built wireless station
Captain Joshua Slocum
John Davis Murray with his wife Ellen M. "Dolly" Murray and son J. Grant Murray.
11th August 1911
National Archives of Australia NAA: R32, CIPC 7/55A
Ong Sam Leong
1857-1918
Key labour supply contractor to Christmas Island
James Cyril Dalmahoy Allan
1888 - 1927
Aged 24
1888 - 1927
Aged 24
The Rev. Walter M. Lowrie
Capt. Raphael Semmes and First Lieutenant John Kell aboard CSS Alabama in 1863
©Chris Su. Used with kind permission.
The "Virgin Castle", as it was known then, in the early 1980s before the front of the building was demolished.
" ... one of the hospital buildings. The shed below is the mortuary, where corpses are placed for not more than a few hours previous to their burial."
Durham, H. E. (1904). Notes on Beri-beri in the Malay Peninsula and on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). The Journal of Hygiene, 4(1), 112–155
"Taken 21 January 1910 - Damage done to the Old Hospital by the sea" National Archives of Australia R32 CIPC 3/24B
Damage to the hospital after a storm in 1908
Damage to the hospital after a storm in 1908
Photo taken by Mily Barrett 12th September 2018
Photo taken by Mily Barrett 12th September 2018
Photo taken by Mily Barrett 12th September 2018
August 2016
The "Virgin Castle" in 1998 after the front has been demolished.
August 2016
August 2016
August 2016
A breezeway. I believe this would have separated the front of the building, accommodation (now demolished and removed) with the utility areas that are left. August 2016
August 2016
August 2016
This cave would normally be in pitch blackness but the photo was taken with a flash.
The ruin viewed from a distance. Midway down to the left you can make out a wall but it is almost totally camouflaged by its surroundings.
Source: National Australian Archives N30, 1970-X6B/X9
In the mid background to the left, you can make out part of the Malay Kampong, then Flying Fish Cove and Smith Point.
In the background above the wall you can see a fence line. This runs alongside a path leading to the old European Cemetery.
"Depiction of Christmas Island by Captain Daniel Beeckman 1718" image by Linn Borghuis
