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Service at the Goulburn Island Mission Station

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Description: This image is also available in the State Library of New South Wales. The description in from the State Library of NSW states: First service held at Goulburn Island, Arnhem Land, 1916. Image shows 4 missionaries giving a service to Indigenous Australians on Jesus walking on the sea. In 2026 a relative of one of the missionaries in the photo contacted us to confirm this was taken in 1916, by Edward Reichenbach, also known as Ted Ryko.

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