Sound Archives: A most unusual Christmas

Chinese gold miners outside a dwelling in Macetown (image: Alexander Turnbull Library)

Germans arrested and sent to Somes Island. NZ Herald 23 Dec 1939 (image:Papers Past

Edward Evans, during Scott’s Antarctic expedition 1911. (image: Canterbury Museum)

In our visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision this week,  we will hear recorded memories of unusual Christmases: boozy celebrations with Chinese gold miners in Central Otago, carol-singing in an internment camp on Somes Island and Christmas dinner with Captain Scott in Antarctica in 1911.