Snorkellers explore corals at Tween Island, 1983. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

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Tourists diving from a pontoon on the Outer Barrier Reef, 1991. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Copyright © Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Tourists snorkelling off Low Isles, 1996. Collection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Copyright © Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Green Island observatory, c1950. Postcard of an artist’s impression of the underwater observatory at Green Island. Private Collection

Private Collection

A group of tourists turtle riding at Heron Island, 1938. Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 65648

A group of visitors prepare for turtle riding at Mon Repos, c1930. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image API-100-0001-0022

Tourists gathering shells and corals at Lodestone Reef near Townsville, c1920. Collection of the National Museum of Australia

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Roylen Cruises, c1955

McLean's Roylen Cruises to the Great Barrier Reef, brochure design by Olive Ashworth. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Islands are an integral part of how Queensland is imagined, perceived and portrayed.

Craigie's road map 100 miles round Brisbane, 1914

Australia
1 January 1914
17 November 2010
17 November 2010

Location

Australia
Sydney
Kenneth Craigie

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Craigie's road map of 100 miles round Brisbane for motorists, cyclists, travellers etc. Compiled, drawn and published by K. Craigie, Map Publisher, Sydney, 1914. The map folds out for storage in the glove box. Collection of the National Library of Australia

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