Papers of Jorma Pohjanpalo, 1928-1977
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Title
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Papers of Jorma Pohjanpalo, 1928-1977
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Subject
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Australia--Discovery and exploration
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Explorers
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Correspondence
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Consuls
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Diplomacy
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Category
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3. World War I
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Author
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Pohjanpalo, Jorma
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Wilkins, George Hubert
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Keywords
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Finland
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Kingsford-Smith, Charles
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Current holder
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National Library of Australia
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Period of reference
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1928 – 1977
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Series number
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MS 5015
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Item number
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649277
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Access rights
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Request at location
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Rights
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Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
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Country of origin
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Australia
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Language
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Finnish
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English
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Description from source
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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.
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Physical format
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Correspondence
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Letters
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Photographs
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Books