climate

Tropical cyclones

It is claimed that tropical cyclones are the most feared weather phenomena to affect Australia.

Survival: how the landscape impacts on people

Queensland’s historical landscape encapsulates the tension between threat and survival.

Average annual number of tropical cyclones

1 January 2006

27 October 2010

Australian Government

Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Average annual number of tropical cyclones using 36 years of data (1969-2006 tropical cyclone seasons), Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government 2006

Tropical cyclones, 1906-2006

1 January 2006

27 October 2010

Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

The path of tropical cyclones in eastern Australia from 1906 to 2006. Each coloured line represents a cyclone. Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Cover of D.A. Herbert, Gardening in warm climates, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1952

Collection of Jeannie Sim

Cultivation

The interest in potentially economically valuable plants (for food, timber, dyes, fabric, and drugs) was part of the concerted effort given by colonial governments towards providing botanic gardens

The Dame in the tropics: Nellie Melba

The young ‘Nellie Melba’ moved with her family to Queensland in 1881, living around the Mackay sugar region until fleeing the tropics in 1883 to launch her singing career in Melbourne.

Separate spheres: gender and dress codes

What separate spheres do women and men inhabit, and is there a particular Queensland style?

Griffith Taylor's Climograph, 1918

Australia

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1 January 1918

30 August 2010

Location

Australia

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30 August 2010

Queensland Geographical Journal

Griffith Taylor’s climographs comparing selected Australian towns with the ideal climate for the white race. Taylor’s climographs combine wet-bulb temperature and humidity data for each month of the year, producing a twelve-sided polygon for each location to allow easy comparison between them. Other climographs compiled by Taylor show the close similarity between tropical Australia and India.

Griffith Taylor, ‘Geographical factors controlling the settlement of tropical Australia’, Queensland Geographical Journal, No18-19, 1918, vols 32-33.

Bicycling through Brisbane, 1896

The bicycle revolutionised movement through the landscape for hundreds of avant-garde Queenslanders during the closing years of the nineteenth century.