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The long road to Jappoon, 1978

Australia

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12 April 1978

20 May 2011

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Australia

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20 May 2011

Fryer Library

The long road to Jappoon, 1978. This map of Queensland, inset on the Japanese flag, appeared on the cover of the independent Brisbane newspaper the Semper in April 1978. This was just weeks before the Queensland Government was set to legislate allowing the twenty thousand acre multi-million dollar Iwasaki Project to go ahead. The article that appeared in the paper was highly critical of the dealings over the Iwasaki Project in Queensland. The paper reported, ‘Notwithstanding Iwasaki’s ploughing unauthorised roads through Crown Land in Yeppoon, Mr. Bjeke-Petersen in support of him says he is “one of the greatest conservationists in the world” and that he has “planted a million trees.”’ The article noted that the Yeppoon Resort was set to be used by wealthy Japanese holidaymakers and that ‘in Tokyo Yeppoon is known as Nippon Costa’. The Semper, 12 April 1978, Collection of the Fryer Library

Japanese map of the Pacific, 1942

Australia

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1 January 1942

6 December 2010

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Australia

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6 December 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, including Queensland coast, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Japanese title is ‘Bismarck to Caledonia’). Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1943, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations in the Coral Sea and Queensland. A map in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1^st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was displayed at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane, 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, 1942

1 January 1942

6 December 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, 1942. Japanese title is ‘New Guinea to Townsville’. Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1942, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations in Queensland. A map in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1^st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was displayed at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane in 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of northern Australia and New Guinea, 1942

Australia

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1 January 1942

6 December 2010

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Australia

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6 December 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Japanese map of northern Australia and New Guinea, 1942. Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1942, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations on Cape York and northern Australia at that time. A map numbered in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1^st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was on display at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane, in 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Fortress Queensland 1942-45

Queensland was a frontline of Allied efforts in the Pacific War of 1941-45, and especially in the crisis year of 1942.

The pearling fleet leaves Kushimoto, 1953. The first post-war pearling fleet was farewelled from Kushimoto in 1953. For the people of Kushimoto, sending this fleet to Australia seemed like the resumption of an old tradition. However, the entry of the Japanese fleet into what Australia now claimed as sovereign territory followed protracted negotiations, because Australia sought to assert the new international doctrine of sovereignty over its ‘continental shelf’. The Japanese government eventually acknowledged Australia’s territorial claim and agreed to catch quotas and size limitations.

Photograph by courtesy of Shishio Takai, Collection of Regina Ganter

Iwasaki project

A bomb exploded at the Iwasaki resort at Yeppoon on 29 November 1980. It ripped a large crater in an unfinished block of holiday units, causing damage estimated at $1 million.