Album des missions de la Nouvelle-Guinée

Title	Album des missions de la Nouvelle-Guinée
Subject	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea--History Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) Colonization Missionaries Missionary settlements Catholic Church
Category	1. Settlement 2. National boundaries
Publisher	D. Dumoulin
Place of Publication	Paris
Keywords	Thursday Island
Creator	La Société des Missionnaires du Sacré-Coeur
Current holder	State Library of Queensland
Date	1897
Link	https://hdl.handle.net/10462/PubsTD/00259035
Item number	9.91838E+16
Access rights	Digitised
Rights	Out of copyright.
Country of origin	Papua New Guinea Australia
Place	Sydney Thursday Island Yule Island
Language	French
Description from source	29 p., [40] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., maps, ports. ; 17 x 26 cm. At foot of t.p.: En vente au Pèlerinage de Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur, a Issoudun. Cover title: Les missions de la Nouvelle-Guinée.
Physical format	Books Maps
Abstract	Includes photographic plates with views of Thursday Island and two folding maps, one showing New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Islands, the islands of Torres Strait and North Queensland, the other the region around Yule Island. The Society's missions in British New Guinea were supplied by its base in Sydney. These missions were at Yule Island, where its first missionaries arrived in 1885, and in the Mekeo and Pokao districts on the nearby mainland on the south coast of British New Guinea. In addition to these centres, the Sacred Heart missionaries - both men and women - were active on Thursday Island (at that time treated as part of the Catholic Church's New Guinea Vicariate) from 1884. From 1884 to 1889 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart mission at Thursday Island was the point of departure for all the Catholic missions - French, German, Swiss and other nationalities - in British New Guinea and New Britain.
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