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Papers of Jorma Pohjanpalo, 1928-1977

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Title
Papers of Jorma Pohjanpalo, 1928-1977
Subject
Australia--Discovery and exploration
Explorers
Correspondence
Consuls
Diplomacy
Category
3. World War I
Author
Pohjanpalo, Jorma
Wilkins, George Hubert
Keywords
Finland
Kingsford-Smith, Charles
Current holder
National Library of Australia
Period of reference
1928 – 1977
Link
https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn649277
Series number
MS 5015
Item number
649277
Access rights
Request at location
Rights
Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
Country of origin
Australia
Place
Helsinki
Sydney
Language
Finnish
English
Description from source
0.03 m. (1 folder), Some photocopies.

MS 5015 comprises two letters from Sir Hubert Wilkins to Jorma Pohjanpalo written in 1956 and 1957, four negatives and a photograph of Wilkins, and a 1974 article in Finnish ("The famous modest explorer of the Arctic regions"); small autograph with typed covering note, "Captain Kingsford-Smith's autograph given by himself to Mr. Jorma Pohjanpalo, Secretary of the Consulate for Finland in Sydney, 20 June 1928"; Pohjanpalo's article "Captain Cook and a Finn discovering the South Seas", published in Keskipoljanmaa, Finland, 13 February 1977, together with the English translation; also, the chapter on Australia "Under the southern sun" from Pohjanpalo's memoirs Onpahan eletty, published in Helsinki in 1974.
Physical format
Correspondence
Letters
Photographs
Books
Bibliographic citation
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