Historical aerial photographs of Australia's coastline

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

Hard-copy black & white / colour aerial photographs were obtained by Hugh Kirkman from a variety of sources for many locations along Australia's coastline. There are 24 boxes of photographs containing 100's of historical photographs.

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Field Value
Title Historical aerial photographs of Australia's coastline
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0520755c-2e21-4a3b-b19a-cc887b412ac5
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Hiski.Kippo@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/02/1944 - 18/09/1985
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Historical aerial photographs of Australia's coastline". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/historical-aerial-photographs-of-australias-coastline1