exploration

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.

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

The Endeavour anchor, James Cook Historical Museum, Cooktown. Postcard by Murray Views, 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.

Plan of the River Brisbane by John Oxley, 1825

Brisbane River Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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6 February 1825

Location

Brisbane River Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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Albemarle Street London

John Murray

Plan of the River Brisbane &c by John Oxley, Surveyor General of New South Wales. Published 6 February 1825 by John Murray Albermarle Street London. Insets show the Mouth of the River, and Chart of Moreton Bay with the Brisbane River. Oxley names the area to later become Mount Coot-tha, 'Glen Morrison Range'. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Perceptions: how people understand the landscape

‘Maps break down our inhibitions, stimulate our glands, stir our imagination, loosen our tongues’ thus spoke Carl Sauer in an essay entitled Education of a Geographer in 1956.