Dutch New Guinea. A Jeep, no. 96, crossing a swampland by means of a 'corduroy' road. These roads ...

Accession Number 016822
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Dutch New Guinea, New Guinea
Date made 11 April 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Dutch New Guinea. A Jeep, no. 96, crossing a swampland by means of a 'corduroy' road. These roads are made of coconut palm trunks and are the only successful method of making a road across the vast swamplands.

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