Reef Collection

Sinking of the Emden
The predatory German cruiser Emden is sunk upon coral reef by the Australians

Use of the Naval Rangefinder for Merchant Navy Navigation, 1
Illustration showing how a Naval Barrster or rangefinder could be used for Merchant Navigation. In this instance the officer of the merchant ship is finding his distance from the lighthouse in order

White peony, Paeonia lactiflora (Paeonia albiflora). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896

Africa Johannesburg Gold Mine on Line of Reef pre-1900

Dassault-Breguet HU-25B Guardian 2111
United States Coast Guard - Dassault-Breguet HU-25B Guardian 2111 (MSN 413), of CGAS Corpus Christi, (Hulk sunk as artificial reef off North Carolina 3 May 2006) Date: circa 2000

Catching rays at Belize
Foxy-Golf on tour catching rays at Caye Chapel on the second biggest Barrier Reef in the World. Date: 1990

Manta ray, Manta birostris, devil ray, Mobula mobular, and reef manta ray, Manta alfredi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Dequevauviller after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Coral reef araucaria or Cook pine, Araucaria columnaris. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Poster, Great Barrier Coral Reef, Australia
Poster, The Marine Wonders of the Great Barrier Coral Reef, Australia -- Take a Kodak, designed by Trompf. 1933

Lake LA-4-200 Buccaneer VH-EJY (msn 643), of Seair Pacific ( The Great Barrier Reef Airline ), at Shute Harbour, Whitsunday, Queensland. Date: circa 1990

GAF Nomad 22B VH-BRQ
GAF Nomad 22B amphibian VH-BRQ (msn 33) of Barrier Reef Airways. Fitted with floats in 1980, number: 33 was first delivered to the United States as N59365 in October 1977

CORAL REEF / J. W. WHIMPER
Waves crashing against a coral reef. Date: circa 1860

Puynipel (Bonibai), Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean
View of Puynipet (Bonibai), in the Caroline Islands, a group of around 500 coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Seen here with surrounding coral reef and natives in boats

Australia - Coral on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns Date: circa 1920s

Hippurites radiosus, rudist mollusc shell
Rudist mollusc shells are elongated molluscs and were also reef builders. Specimen dates from the Late Cretaceous, Des Moulins, Charente, France

Diagram of scouting knots -- Reef Knot, Sheet Bend, Bowline, Middlemans Knot, Sheepshank. Other items are three kinds of camp candlesticks, a camp toothbrush, a camp fork

The Reef, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
The Reef (looking west), Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, with mining dumps (Robinson Deep) in the middle distance. Date: circa 1930

Village Main Reef Gold Mine, South Africa - Engine Chamber (9th level) - depth 1275 feet. Date: circa 1911

The Channel Islands - Greve Le Lecq - Looking down onto bay, beach, houses Cow in foreground. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands Les Pierres de Lecq (J貲 iais)

Art nouveau style coral on the seabed. Date: circa 1920s

GM Coy Gold Mine, Johannesburg, South Africa
GM Coy Gold Mine, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Captioned Village Main Reef. Date: 1904

Visit to Madeira - Deck of the Drummond Castle
Black and white lantern slide of the deck of the Drummond Castle steamer - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection

Display in Baden Powell House, London
Display of items in Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. Date: circa 1960s

Nukapu, Solomon Islands - Patteson Memorial Cross. In 1871, a memorial was erected close to the hut where John Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia was killed. Date: circa 1910s

Gold Prospecting party testing the reef, South Africa Date: 1904

Eimeo and barrier reef
Illustration (p.432) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Synanceja verrucosa, poison stonefish
Ff. 17 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Egretta sacra, Pacific reef egret
Ff. 114. Watercolour painting by George Forster (1773) annotated Ardea jugularis and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Rhinecanthus rectangulus, wedge-tailed triggerfish
Ff. 58a. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Photograph of coral from the Yonge collection

Photograph of reef flat with lighthouse in the background. Plate XXXIII

Low Isles Lab
Photograph of Low Isles Lab with ships in background. Archives ref - DF 421/2

Corals on cement blocks GBR Expedition 1928-1929

Mrs Stephenson wearing a diving helmet
Photograph of Mrs Stephenson wearing a diving helmet. Great Barrier Reef expedition 1928-1929

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, weedy seadragon
Plate 38 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This amazingly camouflaged fish is endemic to the south Australian coast from central New South Wales to south-western Western Australia

Coral collection
Part of a coral collection given to HM Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of the people of Queensland, Australia

Stylina alveolata, reef coral
A reef building coral originating from Jurassic limestones in Europe, eastwards into Asia Minor, and also in the U.S.A

Photograph of corals from the Yonge collection
Photograph from the collection of Sir Charles Maurice Yonge (1899-1986) relating to the Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1927-1929), in the Archive of the Natural History Museum, London

Reef rock
This specimen was collected by Charles Darwin in 1836 from Keeling Atoll, Indian Ocean

Buccoo Reef Snorkellers
A group of snorkellers at Buccoo Reef, famous for its coral beauty, Tobago, West Indies. Date: 1960s

Poster advertising Harrismith, South Africa
Poster advertising Harrismith, a large inland town in South Africa, named after the British Governor, Sir Harry Smith. The western gateway to the Drakensberg mountains

RMS Forth, 1849
Engraving of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Companys paddle-steamer Forth. Built in Leith in 1841, the Forth went missing between Southampton and the West Indies early in 1841

Puynipel (Bonibai), Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean
View of Puynipet (Bonibai), in the Caroline Islands, a group of around 500 coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Seen here with surrounding coral reef and natives in boats

Coral Reef / J. W. Whimper
Vegetation has taken root on the upper levels of a coral reef, forming a kind of island

Whitsunday Island
A madreporic atoll comprising a ring-shaped coral reef, on which seeds borne by the wind have taken root

Australia / Barrier Reef
part of the Great Barrier Reef

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