north Australia

New state above the twentieth parallel, 1953

1 January 1953

2 March 2011

Walkabout

New state above the twentieth parallel, 1953. 'It is ninety years since Sir George Bowen suggested that the north of Australia (above the twentieth parallel) should be a seventh colony and sixty-four years later support came from a Queensland Premier, the late E.G. Theodore.' Walkabout, January 1953, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Griffith Taylor's Climograph, 1918

Australia

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1 January 1918

30 August 2010

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Australia

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30 August 2010

Queensland Geographical Journal

Griffith Taylor’s climographs comparing selected Australian towns with the ideal climate for the white race. Taylor’s climographs combine wet-bulb temperature and humidity data for each month of the year, producing a twelve-sided polygon for each location to allow easy comparison between them. Other climographs compiled by Taylor show the close similarity between tropical Australia and India.

Griffith Taylor, ‘Geographical factors controlling the settlement of tropical Australia’, Queensland Geographical Journal, No18-19, 1918, vols 32-33.

Whiteness in the tropics

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two visions of a white tropical Queensland vied for ascendancy. One was based on the principle of white dominance.