16. Peter Bassett-Smith operating a radio |
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| Title : | 16. Peter Bassett-Smith operating a radio |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Bessie Ilma, 1890-1996 | ||
| Source : | Bessie Mountford, PRG 487/1/2 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | 1948 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1948 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 60 X 60 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Photograph of Peter Bassett-Smith, cine-photographer, operating a two-way radio during the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. The photograph appears on page 208 of diary 2, kept by Bessie Mountford during the Expedition, on which she acted as secretary. The Expedition relied on a two-way radio at the Umbakumba camp on Groote Eylandt, as the nearest short-wave station was 35 miles away at Angurugu River. Only three days after the camp was established on Groote Eylandt, Bassett-Smith found that the valves had been damaged during transport, and the only communication with the outside world was via an Aboriginal runner who could take messages to Angurugu. This was in itself fraught as it was necessary for the runners to cross fast-running streams and sometimes the messages would be washed away. Eventually Bassett-Smith was able to adjust the radio to receive messages, whilst awaiting further equipment to repair the radio for proper operation. |
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| Related names : | Bassett-Smith, Peter, 1911- American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948) |
| Coverage year : | 1948 |
| Place : | Arnhem Land |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948). Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1956-1964 Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972 |
| Internet links : | Peter Bassett-Smith interviewed in 2006 by Martin Thomas & Sally K. May, located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 5655. |
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