The small building on right side of the picture is still standing. But it is in a very poor state now. On the top left of the picture there is a quarry opened by convict labor, they extracted stone between 1870 and 1910 to built all the gvt buildings, the noumea cathedral and noumea street pavement.

Bill Stiller on the right

An Aircraft carrier in the distance, approaching Noumea in 1943.

Bill Stiller

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