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Seventy-Five Years at Willis Island

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1: Willis Island Today

Chapter 2: Willis Island is Conceived

Chapter 3: Willis Island is Born

Chapter 4: The Early Years
Extract from Overseas Telecommunication Veterans Newsletter, Submitted by Bob Inglis
Letter from Eric Riethmuller to Lyndon Wade, September 1981
Later Letter from Eric Riethmuller to Lyndon Wade

Chapter 5: Life in the 1930s

Chapter 6: Willis Island at War (1941–42)

Chapter 7: After the War

Chapter 8: Willis Island—1960s Style

Chapter 9: The Value of Willis Island

Chapter 10: The Original Inhabitants

Appendix 1: Willis Island Milestones

Appendix 2: Willis Island Officers

Appendix 3: Log of Willis Island Observations, December 1922

Appendix 4: References

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The inebreated Hann amongst the stores as Morinda disappears over the horizon, 1927. (Photograph courtesy of Eric Riethmuller)

  The inebreated Hann

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Tramway from the beach to the radio hut, circa 1927. (Photographs courtesy of Eric Riethmuller)

  Tramway

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  Tramway, circa 1927

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Eric Riethmuller and Hann at lunch, 1927. (Photograph courtesy of Eric Riethmuller)

  Riethmuller and Hann

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Radio facilities in the late 1920s and early 1930s. (Photograph courtesy of Eric Riethmuller)

  Radio facilities

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