Kennedy's octant, 1848

Kennedy's octant, 1848

Location

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD
Australia
12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E
H311
Queensland Museum
Pascoe River, Cape York Peninsula
1 January 1848
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD
Australia
12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E
Dimensions
345mm
235mm
75mm

Centaur poster, c1943

Centaur poster, c1943. 'Work, save, fight and so avenge the nurses!', poster by unknown artist. Collection of the Australian War Memorial

Location

Australia

Despite its beauty the Queensland coast is renowned as a dangerous place for shipping, with hundreds of vessels coming to grief on coral reefs and rocky shores over the last 200 years.

Memorial, Tamborine Mountain Road. Photograph by Margaret Gibson, 2009

Copyright © Collection of Margaret Gibson

Memorial, Tamborine Mountain Road. Photograph by Margaret Gibson, 2009

Copyright © Collection of Margaret Gibson

Population Table, Queensland 1860-84, detail from Robert McLean (ed), The new atlas of Australia, Queensland, John Sands, Sydney 1886, p 11
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