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This image is available from the Collection Database of the Australian War Memorial under the ID Number: 300081. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for more information.

Sourced from: http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp

Copyright: The AWM record for this photo states that the copyright status is 'clear'. The photo was taken prior to 1948.

AWM Caption: PORT BOW VIEW OF THE CRUISER HMAS ADELAIDE. SHE IS SHOWN IN HER THIRD ARMAMENT CONFIGURATION, ARMED WITH SEVEN 6 INCH AND TWO 4 INCH AA GUNS. TWO 6 INCH GUNS HAVE BEEN REPLACED IN THE WAIST BY DEPTH CHARGE THROWERS; ONE OF THE GUNS HAS BEEN REMOUNTED ON THE CENTRELINE AFT, REPLACING A 4 INCH AA GUN. 20 MM OERLIKON AA GUNS ARE MOUNTED PORT AND STARBOARD IN THE BRIDGE WINGS, AMIDSHIPS AND ON THE SEARCHLIGHT PLATFORM.THE CRUISER HAS BEEN FITTED WITH AIR SEARCH RADAR ON HER FOREMAST, GUNNERY CONTROL RADAR ON HER MAIN ARMAMENT DIRECTOR AND SURFACE SEARCH RADAR ON A PLATFORM FORWARD OF THE FORE FUNNEL. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION).

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This image was created in Australia and is now classified as being in the public domain because its term of copyright has now expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G23 (Duration of copyright) (Sep 2005), generally copyright has expired as follows: Type of material Copyright has expired if ...  A  Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1955-01-01  B  Photographs (except A): taken prior to 1955-01-01  C  Artistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1955-01-01  D  Published editions1 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago  E  Commonwealth or State government owned2 photographs: first published more than 50 years ago 1means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint. 2owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator.

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