PLACE REPRESENTED: Darwin, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Tray
NOTES: A tray showing the various sites of Australia’s wild north capital, Darwin. This is from the late 1960s or early 1970s and not much has changed since. Just kidding. In any event I leave it to Darwinians to tell me if this was before or after the devastating Cyclone Tracy which decimated Darwin in December 1974.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 28cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Uluru, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: The famous Uluru … though probably still called Ayres Rock at the time of this travel trinket (as it was until 1993). Usually referred to as the largest rock in the world, it’s not. Mount Augustus in outback Western Australia is. Still this is pretty and, unusually, it is a night time or dusk scene of the rock as opposed to the more common daylight one.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia probably
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 28cm long x 11cm wide x 1.5cm thick. .
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kings Canyon, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Steel cup
NOTES: A steel cup. Kings Canyon (which is part of the Watarrka National Park in remote Northern Territory, Australia, about 323 km south-west of Alice Springs).
Everything suggests this souvenir had a functional use around a camp fire.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: steel
MADE IN: China (we probably sold them the iron ore to make this cup)
MANUFACTURER: Shanghai Bon Voyage International Trading Co
DIMENSIONS: 8.5cm diameter x 8cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kings Canyon, Central Australia , Australia
ITEM: Salt & Pepper Shakers
NOTES: Kings Canyon is part of the Watarrka National Park in Northern Territory, Australia, about 323 km southwest of Alice Springs. The plant depicted, the Sturt Desert Pea, is one of Australia’s best known wildflowers and is native to the arid regions of central and north-western Australia.
I’m not sure what plant is more prevalent at King’s Canyon but I do note that Sturt’s Desert Pea is the State floral emblem for South Australia not the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory has Sturt’s Desert Rose as it’s emblem.
How’s that for trivia?
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Crow’s Souvenirs
DIMENSIONS: 9cm tall
PLACE REPRESENTED: Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory , Australia
ITEM: Thermometer
NOTES: Shells and thermometers. It doesn’t matter where you are, though on the water would be preferable, shells and thermometers always go together. Where do these shells come from? Not Nhulunbuy, surely. Maybe, it’s on the coast. Nhulunbuy is the name of the township on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory. This is remote!
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: shells
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 10cm high
