When Tinaroo Dam was completed, it was the only dam in Australia specifically constructed to service the needs of a single agricultural industry - tobacco - at that time. Slides by Beth Snewin, 1955-63, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Beth Snewin and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Mareeba, the tobacco capital of Australia, c1961. Postcard folder GK Bolton, Collection of John Young

 

Collection of John Young

The Atherton Tablelands consists of three tablelands, Hann in the north, Atherton, and Evelyn in the south. It is situated in North Queensland in the Cairns hinterland.

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