TRAVEL POSTER - The Top End

“The Top End” — Australian Airlines
Vintage Travel Poster (c.1950)

Remote, luminous, and rich with atmosphere, this striking reproduction of The Top End presents northern Australia as a place of quiet wonder and untamed beauty. Produced around 1950 for Australian Airlines, the poster captures the romance of post-war air travel—when flight promised access to landscapes once considered impossibly distant.

A stately jabiru (black-necked stork) stands among lotus blooms and still waters, with escarpments glowing under a tropical sky—an image of calm authority and northern mystery.

Australia’s far north, revealed by air.

✈️ Iconic Imagery from the Jet-Age of Travel

• A jabiru poised in wetland shallows—iconic wildlife of the Top End

• Waterlilies and reflective billabongs suggesting heat, stillness, and abundance

• Distant sandstone escarpments glowing at dusk

• A refined, graphic palette of aquas, violets, and warm stone

• Clean airline-era typography announcing THE TOP END with confidence

📐 Size Options

Original proportions preserved. Custom sizing available on request.

🎨 Premium Format Options

📄 Paper — Printed on heavyweight 170 gsm coated paper; smooth, crisp, and ideal for framing under glass.

🧽 Laminated — True encapsulation using 2 × 80-micron gloss laminate; exceptionally durable and wipe-clean.

🪵 Laminated + Wooden Hang Rails — Natural timber rails with discreet hanging cord; ready to display straight away.

🖼️ Canvas — 395 gsm HP Professional Matte Canvas, printed with pigment-based, fade-resistant inks for rich texture and archival longevity.

🪵 Canvas + Wooden Hang Rails — Premium canvas presentation with timber rails top and bottom; effortless, elegant wall hanging.

⏳ Please allow up to 10 working days for hang-railed finishes, as each is carefully assembled by our professional framer.

🎁 Ideal For

• Collectors of Australian airline and travel posters

• Lovers of northern Australia and wetland landscapes

• Mid-century modern, tropical, and coastal interiors

• Studies, living spaces, offices, and gallery walls

🌍 A Poster That Tells a Story

During the rise of commercial aviation, Australian Airlines promoted flight as a bridge to the continent’s most remote regions. The Top End was presented not as harsh or forbidding, but as serene, abundant, and quietly majestic—an Australia few had seen, now within reach.

This was travel sold as revelation.

🖼️ Display with Pride

Whether framed, laminated for everyday durability, or presented on canvas with elegant timber hang rails, this poster brings colour, calm, and classic northern character to any space.

Remote. Luminous. Unforgettable.