Photograph taken from the roof of Government House. In the foreground stands the Porter's lodge, which is a neo-classical building with doric columns and bay windows with pilasters. Beyond are wooded gardens and fountain and Italianate buildings on the foothills of the mountains called the Victoria Hills with the police station, a small square building, occupying the gap. 

This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.

The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, 'The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882'.