Search Results: Oceania

Circular Quay (Sydney, Australia) showing trams, six K-class ferries, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, c. 1930s.

Louise-Antoine, Compte de Bougainville (1729-1811) was a French explorer and former army colonel, who was also a brilliant mathematician. He was a contemporary of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) and a protegée of Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764...

Shipwreck of the Batavia, a Dutch East India Company vessel that was wrecked off the Western Australia coast in 1629. Plate 2, from Ongeluckige voyagie, van 't schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien, by F. Pelsaert, F., & Vliet, J., 1647. State...

A photograph of the 'Enola Gay' on the Marianas Islands. This was the US Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress which dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 in the final stages of the Second World War (1939-45...

Portrait painted by Gottfried Lindauer (1839 - 1926 CE) of Māori rangatira (chief) Tamati Waka Nene of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) (1785 - 1871 CE). Portrait painted 1890 CE. (Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand)

Dutch lawyer and statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619). Considered the founding father of the Dutch East India Company. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

Pictographs known as Wandjina in the Wunnumurra Gorge, Barnett River, Kimberley, Western Australia.

Photograph of Tawhiao, second King of the Māori (1822 - 1894 CE). The photo was taken in the 1880s CE by an unknown photographer.

The July 25, 1893 edition of Te Paki o Matariki, newspaper of the Kīngitanga (Māori King Movement). The masthead depicts Matariki (Pleiades or Seven Stars) and is an adaptation of the coat of arms of the Kīngitanga, designed by Tīwai Parāone...

An 1893 oil on canvas, Merahi Metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana), by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Tahiti, one of the final works completed by the artist...