explorers

Cutting through the scrub, 1848.

Route travelled by the Leichhardt Expedition 1844-45, 1963

Australia

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1 October 1963

2 March 2011

Location

Australia

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2 March 2011

Melbourne

Walkabout

Route travelled by the Leichhardt Expedition 1844-45, Walkabout, October 1963. Map by M.V. Lorman. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Tea-towel: Channel Country

Channel Country, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

Location

Channel Country, QLD

Australia

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3 December 2010

Murray Views Pty Ltd

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Channel Country. Although largely confined within Queensland’s borders the unique inland river system which occasionally innundates the Channel Country extends from Camooweal to Leigh Creek in South Australia before finally disgorging in Lake Eyre. The famous journey of the explorers, Burke and Wills, terminated in 1861 on the north bank of Coopers Creek, the site of the ‘Dig tree’ on Nappa Merrie Station. Collection of Glenn Cooke

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

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H8333

Royal Historical Society of Queensland and Queensland Museum

Terrick Terrick Station, Blackall

26 April 1862

23 November 2010

Blackall Blackall, QLD

Australia

24° 25' 27.6312" S, 145° 27' 57.7548" E

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Dimensions

1580mm

440mm

400mm

Kennedy's octant, 1848

Kennedy's octant, 1848

Location

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD

Australia

12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E

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H311

Queensland Museum

Pascoe River, Cape York Peninsula

1 January 1848

23 November 2010

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD

Australia

12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E

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Dimensions

345mm

235mm

75mm

Eighteenth century seaman's compass

Eighteenth century seaman's compass

Location

Australia

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H272

Queensland Museum

23 November 2010

Australia

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Dimensions

27mm

70mm

Pugh's Book Almanac, map of Queensland, 1862

Australia

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1 January 1862

17 November 2010

Location

Australia

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17 November 2010

Brisbane

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Map of Queensland engraved and printed for Pugh's Book Almanac by Thomas Ham & Co, Brisbane, 1862. The journeys of the explorers are marked and provide information for this map. The western boundary of Queensland appears as two green lines, with hand annotations revising the words 'present' and 'proposed'. A proposal to straighten the southern boundary at 30º taking in the Clarence, Grafton and Walgett is also shown. Collection of Queensland State Archives

The men who blazed the track!

by Will Ogilvie

Since the toasts for the absent are over,

And duly we've pledged in our wine

15 November 2010

William Landsborough with Jemmy and Jack Fisherman, 1862. Collection State Library of Victoria

As well as serving as a police magistrate and commissioner of crown lands in Carpentaria, in 1882 Landsborough was awarded £2000 by the Government for his exploratory work. This he used to buy land at Caloundra where he later settled. He died at his property in 1886. Later his remains were taken to Toowong cemetery.

Collection State Library of Victoria

Landsborough’s Camp 69, reverse, 2008. Explorers were not alone in blazing trees, the reverse side of Landsborough’s tree shows evidence of a large Aboriginal shield being removed from the bar