On the 21 September 1922 an eclipse of the sun passed across the centre of Australia providing optimum conditions for observations. This photograph was taken by one of the members of the Wollal Eclipse expedition in Western Australia and in it we can see the team unloading stores.
This was supervised by the Australian naval party under Commander Quick but the shallow nature of the approach to Wollal meant the boats were anchored three or four miles from the high-water line. This meant that after stores were brought to shore they were transported by the donkey wagons to the observation site. This activity took three days to finish being finally completed and captured, as you can see, by a cinematographer who accompanied the expedition.
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Pos by Geoff Barker, Assistant Curator
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