MAKE A MEME View Large Image Garden Island remained an island until construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock connected it to Potts Point during WWII, reclaiming 14 hectares of seabed. The massive 150 ton sheer legs (a type of crane) on Garden Island was a mistake ...
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Keywords: melvin vaniman melvin vaniman melvinvaniman photography panorama state library statelibrary 1904 woolloomooloo bay woolloomooloobay garden island gardenisland potts point pottspoint state library of new south wales statelibraryofnewsouthwales Garden Island remained an island until construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock connected it to Potts Point during WWII, reclaiming 14 hectares of seabed. The massive 150 ton sheer legs (a type of crane) on Garden Island was a mistake — the result of a cable to England in the 1890s requesting "1 50 ton sheer legs". Find more information about the Melvin Vaniman collection of photographic panoramas in the State Library of New South Wales' catalogue: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=413018 Garden Island remained an island until construction of the Captain Cook Graving Dock connected it to Potts Point during WWII, reclaiming 14 hectares of seabed. The massive 150 ton sheer legs (a type of crane) on Garden Island was a mistake — the result of a cable to England in the 1890s requesting "1 50 ton sheer legs". Find more information about the Melvin Vaniman collection of photographic panoramas in the State Library of New South Wales' catalogue: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemdetailpaged.aspx?itemid=413018
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