Map showing the flooded areas of the Channel Country, Walkabout, January 1952

Monkira, QLD
Australia
24° 49' 0.0012" S, 140° 31' 59.9988" E
1 January 1952
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

Monkira, QLD
Australia
24° 49' 0.0012" S, 140° 31' 59.9988" E
Melbourne
Walkabout

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Map showing the flooded areas of the Channel Country, Walkabout, January 1952. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Tea-towel: Channel Country

Channel Country, QLD
Australia
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Channel Country, QLD
Australia
Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Channel Country. Although largely confined within Queensland’s borders the unique inland river system which occasionally innundates the Channel Country extends from Camooweal to Leigh Creek in South Australia before finally disgorging in Lake Eyre. The famous journey of the explorers, Burke and Wills, terminated in 1861 on the north bank of Coopers Creek, the site of the ‘Dig tree’ on Nappa Merrie Station. Collection of Glenn Cooke

 

Cooper Creek, Channel Country, 1978. Dubbed Burke & Wills Country. Postcard by Murray Views, Murray Views Collection

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Channel Country billabong, 1980. Postcard by Murray View, Murray Views Collection

Copyright © Murray Views Collection

Channel Country, Birdsville, 1980. Postcard by Murray Views, Murray Views Collection 

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Channel Country, near Bedourie, sand hills after flood waters subside or evaporate, 1972. Slide by Dennis Costigan, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright Dennis Costigan and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Hugh Sawrey became one of the best known painters of the Australian outback. Inspired by bush poets and his own outback experiences, his first major works were murals in Queensland pubs.

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