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British Phosphate Commission motor ship

  • 1961

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General view of the M.V. "Triaster" motor ship being loaded with phosphate at the cantilever located in Christmas Island, Nauru. This ship was managed by the British Phosphate Commissioners, a board of representatives from Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand who managed the extraction of phosphate from Christmas Island, Nauru, and Banaba Island (Ocean Island) from 1920 to 1981.

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  • Box 3

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“British Phosphate Commission Motor Ship,” 1961. Travis P. Hignett Collection of Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Photographs, Box 3. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/w66343981.

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