Includes photographic plates with views of Thursday Island and two folding maps, one showing New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Islands, the islands of Torres Strait and North Queensland, the other the region around Yule Island. The Society’s missions in British New Guinea were supplied by its base in Sydney. These missions were at Yule Island, where its first missionaries arrived in 1885, and in the Mekeo and Pokao districts on the nearby mainland on the south coast of British New Guinea. In addition to these centres, the Sacred Heart missionaries – both men and women – were active on Thursday Island (at that time treated as part of the Catholic Church’s New Guinea Vicariate) from 1884. From 1884 to 1889 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart mission at Thursday Island was the point of departure for all the Catholic missions – French, German, Swiss and other nationalities – in British New Guinea and New Britain.