A photograph of a group of indigenous men, women and children, possibly some are pearl shell divers, sitting on the ground in front of flagstaff flying the Red (or Blue) Ensign. In the background is a white-painted storehouse made of wood with corrugated and galvanised iron walls. Beside the storehouse, and behind the flagpole, is a house made of thatched walls and roof. The pearl divers in this industry were a mixture of Aboriginal Australians, South Pacific islanders and Asia, as they provided cheap labour. The proprietor of this station in the early 1880s was Captain Tucker, and it may be him sitting on a crate to the left of the photograph.

The photograph is captioned: 'Pearl shell fishing station. Goode Island. Torres Strait.'

Dr Coppinger records arriving off Somerset and Albany Island in early June and remained in the Torres Strait area for four months. They left on 1 October for Port Darwin, arriving on 20 October 1881.