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Summer Under Southern Skies

by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

The State Library of Queensland has initiated a Flickr-based project titled 'Summer Under Southern Skies'. Participating Australasian institutions will be sharing collection items that convey the southern hemisphere experience of summer and our unique celebration of Christmas and the hot holiday season. Share and enjoy!

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Botheration. From the Bathers Progress postcard series

Off for a paddle

Swimmers at Bondi Beach

Competitors and spectators at a yacht race in Watsons Bay

Palm Beach acrobatics

Acrobatics on the beach

Beatrice Kerr her sister and three children

Tourists on a sandy beach, two seated on sea turtles

Filmmaker James Fitzpatrick, a camera crew and a crowd of people at Bondi Beach

Women walking along Stanwell Park Beach

'Boys and their boards', by Ray Leighton

Young woman sitting astride a turtle

Wheelbarrow race during a surf carnival, Sydney

Turtle riding, Great Barrier Reef

Young men by the seaside

Harry B Williams and friends at the seaside

A small boy at the beach, crawling on the sand with a wave crashing on his back

Coogee Beach

Ocean Beach, Manly, Sydney

Rock bath and beach at Bronte, Sydney

Coolangatta Beach, Queensland

Cronulla Beach, Sydney

Surf bathing at Manly, New South Wales

Sutton's Beach, Redcliffe, Queensland