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Repro ID: H5509
Title: Astronomers at Station B, Honolulu, with a fallen coconut tree.
Description: The astronomers at Station B in Honolulu, one of the five camps of the Transit of Venus expeditions organised by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1874. The astronomers are posing with a blown-down coconut tree, which had nearly destroyed their apparatus when it fell.
Creator: unknown
Date: 1874
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London. Cambridge University Library

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