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Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum

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290: 36: 274: 178:. The museum explicitly houses and records the local maritime history of Ballina and the former mariners that reside in the town. Many of the museum's founding members, as well as some current volunteers served in the Royal Australian Navy. The museum features displays and models honouring events and history from the RAN and navies from other nations. 311: 77: 181:
The museum is located on Regatta avenue, behind the Ballina Tourist information centre. The museum is noted for maintaining in its collection one of the three
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expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have travelled across the Pacific in ancient times.
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craft and it also manages the largest naval and merchant ship model collection in Australia.
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rafts were towed into Ballina by fishing trawlers after their journey from
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Local maritime history museum in New South Wales, Australia
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is a local maritime history museum located in the town of
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Ballina, New South Wales
Coordinates
28°52′24″S 153°33′52″E / 28.873314°S 153.564480°E / -28.873314; 153.564480
Las Balsas
http://www.ballinamaritimemuseum.org
Ballina, New South Wales
Australia
Las Balsas
Las Balsas
SS Wollongbar
Vital Alsar Pacific raft expeditions
Las Balsas
Ecuador
Mooloolaba
Queensland
Kon-Tiki
The Las Balsas raft at the Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum
Las Balsas
A model of a Dutch Indiaman
List of museums in New South Wales
List of maritime museums
"Ballina Maritime Museum"
"Ballina Maritime Museum"
"Ballina Maritime Museum"
"Ballina Naval & Maritime Museum"
the original
"Las Balsa Expedition"
Categories
Transport museums in New South Wales

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