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Sea Chest Secret

An exciting maritime mystery exhibition

Use your hands and minds in a voyage of discovery to uncover facts about the writer of an intriguing diary found washed ashore in a sea chest.

Learn about environmental science and marine biology, maritime history and archaeology, art, navigation, botany and life at sea. Find out about how flags were used to communicate with other ships, discover how a sextant works and see what rats ate on board ships.

Background

Background to Suspects in Exhibition	205 kB	491 kB
Beat it - Percussion Instruments in the Pacific	222 kB	564 kB
Botany Bound - Botanists On Board	53 kB	21 kB
Can You Fathom It - River Soundings	48 kB	14 kB
Captain's Code - Semaphore Flags	168 kB	46 kB
Carving Clue - Sculpture in the Pacific	428 kB	865 kB
Choose a Chest - Tools and Clothes Carried in Sea Chests	49 kB	16 kB
Delve Deep - Pearl Oysters	53 kB	21 kB
Exhibit Descriptions, Subjects & Clues	30 kB	61 kB
Haul Away - Signal Flags	172 kB	58 kB
Out to Dry - Clothing and Laundry on Ships	50 kB	16 kB
Perch a Parrot - Sextants and Navigation	221 kB	442 kB
Pressing Problem - Collecting Specimens	182 kB	383 kB
Puzzling Portholes - Landscape Painting	47 kB	12 kB
Raise the Rigging - Ship Sails and Rigging	49 kB	15 kB
Restore the Relic - Ship Bells	49 kB	15 kB
Roaming Rats - Vermin on Board	48 kB	11 kB
Scurvy Science - Antiscorbutic Foods & Vitamin C	51 kB	19 kB
Scuttlebutt's Secrets	46 kB	8 kB
Spot the Skipper - a History of Silhouettes	47 kB	11 kB
Tattoo Clue - Polynesian and European Tattoo History	128 kB	132 kB
Tests of Time - Chronometers and Navigation	49 kB	16 kB
Tracks in Time - Animal Footprints	152 kB	36 kB
Who's Hidden - Art Restoration & Conservation	48 kB	10 kB

Further information

Artistic Techniques	50 kB	16 kB
Artists & Illustrators	49 kB	18 kB
HMB Endeavour‘s Journey	238 kB	46 kB
HMS Bounty‘s Journey	236 kB	46 kB
HMS Resolution I‘s Journey	248 kB	49 kB
HMS Resolution II‘s Journey	246 kB	48 kB
James Cook - a Brief Biography	49 kB	16 kB
Plants collected onboard Endeavour and Resolution II	80 kB	38 kB
Naturalists Onboard	87 kB	20 kB
Non European Voyagers on European Sailing Ships	48 kB	15 kB
Tasmanian Aborigines	47 kB	11 kB
The Life of a Boy on A Ship	50 kB	16 kB
William Bligh - a Brief Biography	28 kB	15 kB
Women Onboard	47 kB	13 kB

Classroom activities and curriculum links

Sea Chest Secret Activities	488 kB	145 kB
Primary National Curriculum Links	57 kB	32 kB
Secondary National Profile Links	47 kB	26 kB

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