sugar refining

Australian sugar growing and refining sites, c1950. This map shows both the major Australian sugar growing districts along the Queensland coast and northern New South Wales, and also the sugar refineries that were located in Bundaberg, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. It details how much processing of the raw sugar cane was done away from the source. The inset demonstrates the export of sugar from far North Queensland to the rest of the world, which accounted for about half of the raw sugar produced in Australia. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland