sugar

Sugar terminal, Mackay, c1960. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

A gang working on sugar cane tram lines, Isis central sugar mill, near Childers, 1976. Slide by George Moller, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Sugar cane, Atherton Shire, 1966. Slide by Robin Barron, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Australian South Sea Islanders

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

Train being towed off Inkerman Bridge by donkey engine, flood February 1922.

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Lower Burdekin, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1888

26 October 2010

Location

Lower Burdekin, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

26 October 2010

James Cook University Archives, Townsville

A sketch plan of Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, Lower Burdekin, c1888. Pioneer Mill Records, Photograph 52, James Cook University Archives, Townsville

Sugar

Commercial production of sugar commenced in Queensland during the mid-1860s.

South Sea Islander huts, Farnbro, Childers, 1904. Queensland agricultural journal, 1904. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

sugar

Sugar terminal, Mackay, c1960

A gang working on sugar cane tram lines, Isis central sugar mill, 1976

Sugar cane, Atherton Shire, 1966

Australian South Sea Islanders

Train towed across Burdekin River at Inkerman sugar mill, 1922

Airdmillan, Kalamia and Seaforth sugar plantations, c1888

Location

Sugar

South Sea Islander huts, Childers, 1904

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897