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Underground Australia

by National Library of Australia Commons

We are pleased to launch the National Library's latest book showcasing the unique pictures in the collection - "Underground Australia".

Written by historian Michael McKernan, and with images by some of the country’s best-known photographers, including Jeff Carter, Wolfgang Sievers and Frank Hurley, this book will take you on a journey to an amazing underground world.

In order to share the collection as widely as possible, we are also uploading the out of copyright photographs used in the publication here on Flickr Commons.

To see some other photos from this book visit our Facebook gallery: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151634921685233.10737...

To order the book, visit our online shop at: bookshop.nla.gov.au/book/underground-australia.do

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This plate commemorates James Carvosso Wiburd, who retired in 1932 after forty-seven years service at Jenolan Caves [Jenolan Caves, New South Wales] / [Frank Hurley]
The dazzling beauty of the Persian Chamber, Orient Cave [Jenolan Caves, New South Wales] [Frank Hurley]
[Visitors to the Right Imperial Cave inspecting the Sentinel with the Grand Stalactites behind them] [Frank Hurley]
The Cascades, River Cave [Jenolan Caves, New South Wales] / [Frank Hurley]
Women sorting cheques in the basement -- (A document for times gone if ever there was one), National Bank, Head office, 279 Collins Street, Melbourne, 1953 / Wolfgang Sievers
Snowy Mountains Scheme T-2 tunnel work, 1957, Dept. of Overseas Trade, Melbourne / Wolfgang Sievers
Post office and telegraph station, Coober Pedy : scenes of Tennant Creek and the Northern Territory, Beltana, Oodnadatta and other general scenes / [John Flynn?]
E.W. Searle's Citroen stopped by a tunnel on the Wombeyan Caves Road, near Mittagong, New South Wales, ca. 1950, 1 / E.W. Searle
Thiess Bros. digging machine excavating during construction of the Domain carpark, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, ca. 1956. / Thiess Bros. Pty Ltd
Where the train made smoke for Hurley through Hawkesbury tunnel and where his camera... [Hawkesbury train emerging from tunnel] [New South Wales] / [Frank Hurley]
Open cut underground railway now completed, Museum Station, Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1925
Interior of outfall sewer / W.J. Mildenhall
Miners / W.J. Mildenhall
Opal miner, George Lowe chips away at the face of his opal mine, Lightning Ridge, 1953
View in No. 5 sub station / Hall & Co
Unidentified woman standing at opening to underground storage shed : part of scenes in the Otway Ranges region of Victoria / [John Flynn?]
Cave dwellers near Kernell [ie. Kurnell], New South Wales, 1930s
Approach to cave dwellers house near Kernell [ie. Kurnell], New South Wales, 1930s
Battery on Middle Head, New South Wales / Charles Bayliss
Unidentified Australian Army soldiers constructing a dugout : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II / [John Flynn?]
Underground cell's, Point Puer [Tasmania]
Cave prison : taken on a survey trip undertaken in 1927 by Rev. J.A. Barber and Dr. George Simpson for the Flying Doctor Scheme
Conway shovel in operation No.4 P.S. [power station, and men, Kiewa, December 1947] [State Electricity Commission of Victoria] / [Frank Hurley]
Tunnellers going on shift No.4 P. S. [men in underground tunnel on transport, power station, Kiewa, December 1947, 2] [State Electricity Commission of Victoria] / [Frank Hurley]
Excavating No.4 P.S. tunnel [men with power-drilling equipment, power station, Kiewa, December 1947] [State Electricity Commission of Victoria] / [Frank Hurley]
River Cave, Margaret River [Western Australia, 2] [Frank Hurley]
Frank Moon lying underneath some stalactites, Buchan Caves, Victoria : part of a mixed selection of lantern slides and negatives from John Flynn's teaching days in Gippsland, and early AIM [Australian Inland Mission] /
Yanchep, Crystal cave [Western Australia] [Frank Hurley]
Adelie Land, a grotto of "mysteries" [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]
On the frozen sea in a cavern eaten out by the waves under the coastal ice-cliffs, Adelie Land [Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914]