Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 2008 showing sedimentation on the Warrego. Photograph by Owen Powell, 2008

Copyright © Owen Powell

Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 1912. State Library of Queensland 

State Library of Queensland image 48162 

Thomas Welsby, former president of the Queensland Historical Society, described his impression of the explorer William Landsborough in 1935,

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Gregory’s theodolite, c1870

Gregory’s theodolite, c1870

Location

Australia
H28314
Queensland Museum
29 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
295mm
240mm
157mm

Aboriginal cave drawings, 1895

Robert Logan Jack, Aboriginal cave-drawings on the Palmer gold fields, Plate 1, Royal Society of Queensland, vol XI, 1895

St George’s Bridge, Mitchell’s Journal, Plate II. Thomas Mitchell, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848

Mitchell's advance to the Maranoa, return to St George's Bridge, 1848

1 January 1848
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
Longman and Co

Thomas Mitchell, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, Map IV

Leichhardt's route from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, 1847

25 August 1847
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
John Arrowsmith

Ludwig Leichhardt's route in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... from his original map, London, John Arrowsmith, 1847

Explorer’s journals provide a fascinating insight into two peoples of different cultures becoming acquainted with each other.

William Hodgkinson, North West Exploration Party, 1876

1 January 1877
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13 October 2010
Survey Branch, Lands Department
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Hodgkinson exploring the Mulligan River and 'opening up' the west. 'Map shewing route traversed by North Western Exploration Party commanded by W.O. Hodgkinson, Queensland, 1876'. From Queensland Parliamentary Papers, 3, 1877. Collection of the National Library of Australia

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