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1. Mt. Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania

Mt. Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Tasmania, together with the five states of Australia, forms what is called the Commonwealth of Australia. It is a heart-shaped island, with its top less than two hundred miles from Australia and its point toward the Pole. It is considered as the Switzerland of the southern Pacific, and one of the most healthful and beautiful lands of the globe. Hobart, the capital and largest city on the island, is twenty-five hundred miles below the Equator, with nothing by ocean between it and the frozen lands of the Antarctic. It lies on a fine harbor in a nest of hills on the banks of the Derwent and has beautiful Mount Wellington for a background."

2. U.S. life saving drill

U.S. life saving drill

3. Grand stairway and lake front

Grand stairway and lake front

Description: Photo shows a scene from the Lewis and Clark Exposition held at Portland, Oregon in 1905.

4. View showing bridge

View showing bridge

5. The Remarkable Lake Wakatipu

The Remarkable Lake Wakatipu

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This is an amazingly beautiful lake; more than a thousand feet above sea level, about fifty miles long and exceedingly deep. Azure blue, cobalt blue and the blue of coral seas are seen in its waters; and on the highest summits of the practically treeless ranges that wall it in. snow exists at all times of the year. Geologists say that Waktipu occupies the bed of a glacier, but according to Maori mythology it was dug with a spade by Chief Rakahaitu. Gooding says "If this be true, Rakaihaitu was the greatest navvy New Zealand has ever produced and had he lived today he would have been the very man to dig the Panama Canal."

6. Boiling Lake - Rotomahana

Boiling Lake - Rotomahana

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "To the north of Lake Taupo is the celebrated 'Hot Lakes' district. Rotorua is the railway terminus, and here are many hot springs, geysers, and mud baths. Lake Rotomohana, at the foot of the volcano of Tarawera, is actually boiling at that portion of its shore where formerly existed the 'Pink Terraces'. This pumice-covered region was supposed to be infertile and supports only a useless 'manuka' vegetation, but it is now being brought under cultivation by scientific methods. The natural wonders attract thousands of visitors."

7. Glimpse of Lake Manapouri

Glimpse of Lake Manapouri

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Almost entirely surrounded by mountains, studded with countless wooded islands, and indented with lovely little bays, Manapouri, or perhaps more correctly manawa-popore - the lake of the "throbbing heart" - is a dream of beauty, a joy forever. This is the deepest lake on South Island, having a depth of 1,460 feet, its bottom being 860 feet below the sea level. "

8. Lake Kameri

9. Refugee Bay, Hawkesbury River, N. S. W.

Refugee Bay, Hawkesbury River, N. S. W.

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Hawkesbury River is one of the most beautiful rivers of Australia. It flows directly eastward to the sea at Broken Bay, from which the river is navigable by streamers for 70 miles, as far as Windsor."

10. Fiends of the Alps

Fiends of the Alps

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Matterhorn, Switzerland. In every mountain district maturely dissected by glaciers, are to be found sharp horns of large base and especially of the com-bridges. They are further in contrast with the latter by having an approximately pyramidal form, and a base most frequently a triangle with flatly in-curving sides. They appear most frequently at the junction points of the comb-ridges between three or more important snow-fields. Such forms are generally termed "horns" in the Alps, and the word being of the same form in English, it may well be retained as a technical expression. The Matterhorn in Switzerland is the type par excellence, though similar and almost equally striking examples are numerous."