professional photographer and surveyor, was assistant to the surveyor and photographer Arthur Hamilton at the Adams Bay settlement (Northern Territory) in 1864-65. Surviving wet-plate photographs include views of the coastline, the three ships which brought the party to the settlement, the tents being erected, the landing of the stores, the erection of the military quarters, other views of the settlement and the local Aboriginal people, and various landscapes (private collection, copies Royal Historical Society of Victoria). The two men took their photographic equipment with them on 7 May 1865 when with five others they abandoned the settlement in an open boat wryly named Forlorn Hope. When they arrived at Geraldton, Western Australia, three months later, Hake and Hamilton decided to remain and set up as professional photographers.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
