rivers

Queensland in flood, 1974

17 April 2015

Collection of The University of Queensland Library

Queensland in flood, 1974. This map shows rivers in Queensland that were flooded in 1974: rivers in light blue were in minor flood, in green were in moderate flood and in red were major flood.

Merchandise to support the Save the Mary River campaign.

Irrigation and water supply projects, 1963

1 January 1963

3 December 2010

Queensland Irrigation and Water Supply Commission

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Irrigation and water supply projects, 1963. Investigation and construction program of the Queensland Irrigation and Water Supply Commission. Maps shows work in progress, commenced, rainfall and limits of the Artesian Basin. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Flood marker, Fitzroy River, Rockhampton, 2009, showing relative heights of the 1918, 1954 and 1991 floods. Photograph by Barbara Webster

Crossing the Burdekin by boat, 1927. Passengers from a mail train are being rowed out to another train waiting on the Burdekin River Bridge.

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Cobb & Co

There is often no road and the coach is taken at random through the forest… But the great miracle is the sudden pinches, looking as if they were almost perpendicular, do

Channel Country

From the air, the braided Channel Country constitutes some of the most distinctive landscape in Australia.