Royal Hayman Hotel, Hayman Island.
1950. Early advertising card for the famous Australian luxury resort and hotel, developed in the 1950s by millionaire Reginald Ansett, founder of Ansett Australia, an Australian air line group based in Melbourne. With color illustration of two women and a young man in bathing costume, on a pristine beach. Hayman Island, the most northerly of the Whitsunday Group, was named for George Nares' navigator, Thomas Hayman. In the 1930s, a biological research laboratory was established there by Edwin Embury, & was soon joined by the Great Barrier Reef Game Fish Angling Club, which attracted game fishermen such as Zane Grey, American novelist and filmmaker. Ansett acquired the island in 1947 and worked on the Royal Hayman Hotel, which opened in 1950 with a Royal Charter granted in anticipation of a royal visit. 5 x 5 1/2" Very good condition. Item #16691
Price: $65.00