Seawatchers, The : The Story of Australia’s Coast Radio Service

AUSTRALIANA Maritime –

Work of radio pioneers around the turn of the 20th century, and traces the development of radio communications in Australia to the 1980s. It tells about many real-life adventures and disasters: the New Guinea gold rush, the 1942 bombing of Darwin, wartime escapes from the Japanese in the Pacific Islands, devastating cyclones and volcanic eruptions, as well as tales of life in remote South Pacific outposts and on a tiny island in the Coral Sea.

First Edition.

• xii, 248 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm. #070726
• (Shelf wear to jacket edge.)

• • Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia). Coast Radio Service — History
  • Marine radio stations — Australia — History