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Ken Apthorpe's photograph collection
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Australian coast series |
This page has been contributed by an Australian geographer from Brisbane, Ken Apthorpe. As you will see below he has been to some places that we in the UK would give our eye teeth to see .. and to photograph so well!
I am very grateful to Ken to display his photographs here, and to have a geographer's commentary. Copyright is, of course, his alone.
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1. Typical beach southern NSW (South Durras)
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2. Typical
beach northern NSW – 'Dreamtime Beach' (they are into tacky |
3. Tourists in surf at Byron Bay (ignorant of rips).
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1 NSW beach.jpg 565KB
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2 NSW Dreamtime Bch.jpg 350KB
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3 NSW tourists surf.jp 280KB
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4. Scarp cut in foredune after storm (southern NSW).
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5. The barrier
system at the Coorong, SA (near mouth of Murray River). |
6. Tidal inlet on the coast of northwest WA near Derby. Green is mangroves, white is salt flats. |
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4 Dune scarp S NSW.jpg 572KB
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4 Dune scarp S NSW.jpg 465KB
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6 Tidal inlet NW WA.jpg 548KB
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7. Sydney beach (Curl Curl) and bushfire smoke.
7 Sydney bushfire Curly.jpg 607KB |
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8. London Bridge at Port Campbell, Vic (1987).
8 London Bridge_1.jpg 171KB
9 London Bridge_2.jpg 159KB |
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10. Small village in Solomon Islands. Fringing coral reefs.
10 Solomons village.jpg 632KB
11 Solomons village bch.jpg 408KB |
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Irian Jaya series
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12. Waterfront houses in the harbour at Jayapura, Irian Jaya.
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13. Typical large jungle village in southern lowlands (has a mission school). |
14. Typical small jungle village on Eilander River, southern lowlands, using slash and burn farming. |
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12 Jayapura waterfront.jpg 443KB
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13 Irian village large.jpg 770KB
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14 Irian village small.jpg 417KB
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Central highlands, near Wamena (5200', 1600m). Wamena is main highlands admin centre for Indonesian authorities. The highlands people developed more sophisticated traditional farming techniques than lowlanders.
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15. Typical
garden plots on river flat near Wamena (grow yams as
staple, plus other veggies). |
16. Garden plots on terraced mountainside. The mountains here rise from the Baliem River gorge, and go up to 12000'. |
17. Zoom to part of 16 image to show terracing.
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15 Irian plots_1.jpg 278KB
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16 Irian plots_2.jpg
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17 Irian plots2 zoom.jpg 374KB
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18. Close up of mountain plots.
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19. More mountain plots above Baliem River. |
20. Zoom of 19.
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18 Irian plots
close.jpg 749KB |
19 Irian plots_4.jpg 304KB |
20 Irian plots4 zoom.jpg 428KB |
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21. Further
south along Baliem gorge. Regular earth tremors cause huge
21 Masswaste Equake.jpg 422KB |
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22. The market in Wamena
22 Wamena market.jpg 388KB |
23. Village pho-op
22 Wamena market.jpg 357 KB
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24. Status symbols
24 Status symbols.jpg 376KB |
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25. Ancestral chief
25 Ancestral chief.jpg 313KB |
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