District between Charters Towers and the coast, 1878

Charters Towers, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1878
23 September 2010
23 September 2010

Location

Charters Towers, QLD
Australia
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23 September 2010
Brisbane
Government Engraving & Lithographic Office

Copyright © Collection of the National Library of Australia, Map RM 3506

Movable heritage of North Queensland

Houses constructed in Charters Towers during the gold rush were later moved to Townsville, 130 kilometres away. Geological sketch map of the district between Charters Towers Goldfield & the Coast, by Robert L. Jack, FGS, FRGS, 1878. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office, Brisbane, H.W.Fox lithographer. Collection of the National Library of Australia.

Geological survey of Queensland, 1928-29

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

Location

QLD
Australia
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1:2,500,000
Geological survey of Queensland
Map 'The Geological survey of Queensland', prepared by Benjamin Dunstan 1928-29, from the Edgeworth David Collection in the National Library of Australia. It was based on the 1905 Geological Sketch map of Queensland. It was probably sent by Dunstan to Edgeworth David. Courtesy, National Library of Australia

Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

Location

QLD
Australia
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2 July 2010
1:3,000,000
Geological survey of Queensland

This hand-drawn and hand-painted map from the Edgeworth David collection in the National Library of Australia, is a Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1928-29. It is probably a tracing done by Edgeworth David and sent to Queensland for correction. He could safely send this copy to Queensland without any fear of something happening to his original compilation. Courtesy National Library of Australia

Geological survey of Queensland

The 1928-29 map ‘Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia’ is a good illustration of the state of the technology of map creation at the time that it

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Walkabout cover, March 1947

The unusual stones featured on the cover of this issue were dug from the ground on the Darr River, a tributary of the Thomson River, near Longreach, Central Queensland, cover image Walkabout, March 1947. Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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