Paddock map of Tinnenburra, 1924

4 February 2015
4 February 2015

Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Paddock map of Tinnenburra, 1924. Drafted after AML&F purchased the lease in 1922, this map depicts existing pastoral infrastructure. The Tinnenburra lease later expired in 1944, however, due to war time commitments the Lands Department delayed its decision to renew it. In 1949 the Lands Department initiated plans to sub-divide the property. Shortly after, AML&F acquired the Caiwarro and Currawinya runs adjacent and west of Tinnenburra. Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Financial companies exerted a profound impact on the land, transforming the land itself, creating built landmarks like wool stores, and changing ownership, boundaries and the development of the lan

Glenormiston station, c1930

Bedourie, QLD
Australia
24° 21' 34.7832" S, 139° 28' 15.4236" E
1 January 1930
3 May 2011
3 May 2011

Location

Bedourie, QLD
Australia
24° 21' 34.7832" S, 139° 28' 15.4236" E

Queensland State Archives

four miles to an inch

Glenormiston station, c1930. This black and white photostat map shows Glenormiston station in far western Queensland. Pituri was traded north along the Georgina River into Wangka-yutyurru country and south along the Mulligan River into the major trade networks that operated in the Lake Eyre Basin. The station homestead, where J.A. Coghlan lived in the 1890s, is positioned on Pituri Creek, near Lake Idamea and not far west from the Georgina River. After Coghlan had moved on as manager and ownership had changed hands, in 1922, when portions of Glenormiston were going to be resumed, the Assessing Commissioner J. Kingston described the country as made up of: open and broken downs, low limestone ridges, river and creek flats, scalded and inferior flats and rough hills. The commissioner noted, ‘It is light carrying country, but is safe if not overstocked and is excellent country for raising and fattening heavy cattle.’ Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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