Rabbit trap

Rabbits introduced to Queensland, as in other parts of Australia, rapidly became a pest and damaged agricultural land and native vegetation.

Location

Australia
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Queensland Museum
23 November 2010
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010, H26958
Australia
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Survival
Survival: how the landscape impacts on people
Dimensions
128mm
845mm
73mm

Prickly pear singeing machine

Prickly pear singeing machine

A machine employed to control the rapid and devastating spread of prickly pear in Queensland. 

Location

Australia
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H14375
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
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Prickly pear
Transformation
Transformation: how the landscape has changed and been modified
Dimensions
580mm
1270mm
1550mm

Prickly pear infestation, Chinchilla, 1920s

This photo taken near Chinchilla about 1920 illustrates how much of a hindrance prickly pear was to settlers and why properties were often abandoned.

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 152651

Types of prickly pear, 1925

Common pest pear (Opuntia stricta var. stricta), Spiny pest pear (Opuntia stricta var.

Prickly pear, 1925

1 January 1925
25 October 2010
25 October 2010
25 October 2010
Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board
Prickly pear

Map showing main prickly pear areas of Queensland and New South Wales, 1925. Australia Prickly Pear Board, The prickly pears acclimatised in Australia, Sydney, Commonwealth Prickly Pear Board, 1925

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