Burke & Wills

Tea-towel: Channel Country

Channel Country, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

Location

Channel Country, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

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

Pugh's Book Almanac, map of Queensland, 1862

Australia

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1 January 1862

17 November 2010

Location

Australia

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17 November 2010

Brisbane

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Map of Queensland engraved and printed for Pugh's Book Almanac by Thomas Ham & Co, Brisbane, 1862. The journeys of the explorers are marked and provide information for this map. The western boundary of Queensland appears as two green lines, with hand annotations revising the words 'present' and 'proposed'. A proposal to straighten the southern boundary at 30º taking in the Clarence, Grafton and Walgett is also shown. Collection of Queensland State Archives

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