Landsborough’s tree, 1862

William Landsborough marked a number of trees to plot and record the route of his exploratory journey to establish an overland stock route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Cunnamulla.

Location

Blackall Blackall, QLD
Australia
24° 25' 27.6312" S, 145° 27' 57.7548" E
See map: Google Maps
H8333
Royal Historical Society of Queensland and Queensland Museum
Terrick Terrick Station, Blackall
26 April 1862
23 November 2010
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010
Blackall Blackall, QLD
Australia
24° 25' 27.6312" S, 145° 27' 57.7548" E
See map: Google Maps
Curiosity
Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape
In search of Landsborough
Dimensions
1580mm
440mm
400mm

Gold regions Australia, 1850s

21 October 2010
21 October 2010
21 October 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Gold

Australian gold regions, 1850s. From Atlas of Australia with all the gold regions, engraved by Sidney Hall, J. Bartholomew and W. Hughes, Edinburgh, A.C.Black, 1850s.

This Atlas produced in Edinburgh from 1850s, shows the major gold deposits in Victoria and New South Wales, with some areas in Moreton Bay (part of New South Wales and North Australia).

Duboisia hopwoodii: a colonial curiosity

Which way did Ludwig Leichhardt go? He must have passed through here. The sand dunes of far west Queensland must hold a secret to the mystery.

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James Cook monuments, Cooktown, 1988

James Cook monuments, Cooktown, 1988. Slides by Audrey Johnston, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Audrey Johnston and the Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

James Cook’s hundred days in Queensland

Cook began sailing northwards along the Queensland coast in mid-May 1770.

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