U.S. Museum Display On Campbell Island
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, May 24. The people of Denver, Colorado, will soon know more about New Zealand's southernmost weather station at Campbell Island that most New Zealanders. The Denver Museum of Natural History is completing a display of the island's wildlife which will be visited by 700,000 people a year. The exhibit is 96ft wide, 40ft high and 30ft deep. In addition, the museum authorities have produced “sub-Antarctic Campbell Island,” the most comprehensive account yet made of the island. Some talks and three years of regular correspondence between New Zealand and the United States lie behind the compilation of the book by the joint authors, the director of the Denver Museum, Mr Alfred M. Bailey, and the acting Chief Inspector of Fisheries, Marine Department, Mr J. H. Sorensen. Mr Bailey visited the island
with a museum expedition for about six weeks in 1958. All the mammals, fur and elephant seals, and many of the different types of penguins and other birds of the island are being assembled in the museum display.
Backdrops are being painted by an artist, Mr William Traher, who has visited the island to see their natural habitat.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29831, 25 May 1962, Page 8
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