Site Represents a site. Show Point true Country Australia Organiser United States of America, Australia and Canada, India Place The town or city Wallal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource American, Australian and Canadian and Indian Expeditions to Wallal to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 September, 1922 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21/09/1922 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 12 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource am619@st-andrews.ac.uk Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,-19.78583019,120.655497378; Description An account of the resource The Lick Observatory of California, Perth Observatory, University of Toronto and Kodiakanal Solar Observatory all sent expeditions to remote Wallal after the Commonwealth Government offered to provide transport to and from the location. The local Nyangumarta people assisted the teams greatly and were interested in their expedition. The Lick team gathered strong evidence in favour of Albert Einstein's now accepted Theory of General Relativity. <p><a href="https://eclipse-history.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/lick-observatorys-successful-verification-of-general-relativity-at-september-1922-total-solar-eclipse/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read article</a>.</p> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived tsee Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT