Sextant

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Title

Sextant

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This sextant (navigational instrument) was made in 1917 by German merchant marine cadet, Walter von Zatorski. At the time he was interned as a prisoner of war on Motuihe Island in the Hauraki Gulf, about eleven kilometres northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. He had been captured when New Zealand forces took the Pacific Island of German Samoa (now the Independent State of Samoa) during World War I (1914-1918). The sextant and its case are totally improvised, and were made using the fuel tank fr...

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Format

Image

Date created

1917

Creator

Walter von Zatorski

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/58422

Related subjects

brass / glass / wood / sextants / New Zealand / Walter von Zatorski / German

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