Album des missions de la Nouvelle-Guinée

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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
Period of reference: 1897 – 1897
Link: https://hdl.handle.net/10462/PubsTD/00259035
Item number: 99183827318702061
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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