Map, RACQ Townsville tourist district map, c1950

Australia
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17 February 2015
17 February 2015

Location

Australia
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17 February 2015

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Townsville’s Mount St John Zoo

Map, RACQ Townsville tourist district map, c1950 (detail) showing location of Mt St John Zoo.

Tourist map, Townsville and District, c1960

17 February 2015
17 February 2015
17 February 2015

Collection of the State Library or Queensland

Townsville’s Mount St John Zoo

Tourist map, Townsville and District, c1960. One of many maps produced by the Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, this map mentions Mount St John Zoo as a local attraction in the caption to the right. It is marked on the map just north of Townsville, in the lower right-hand corner. Ephemera Collection, State Library of Queensland

Lion at Mount St John Zoo, 1962

Lion at Mount St John Zoo, 1962. Slide by Beth Snewin.

Copyright © Beth Snewin, 2015

Crocodile enclosure at Mount St John Zoo, 1940s

Crocodile enclosure at Mount St John Zoo, 1940s. St John Robinson was able to observe crocodiles building their nests in this enclosure.

Collection of Townsville City Libraries

Townsville’s Mount St John Zoo

The Mount St John Zoo was a popular attraction in the Townsville region in the 1930s-40s, widely acclaimed as the largest privately-owned zoological garden in Australia.

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View from Fort Kissing Point, Townsville, 2003

View from Fort Kissing Point, Townsville, 2003. Peter Dunn

Copyright © Peter Dunn Collection

Cleveland Bay, mariner's survey, 1886

Cleveland Bay, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1886
2 December 2010
2 December 2010

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Cleveland Bay, QLD
Australia
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2 December 2010
London
The Admiralty

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Pathways
Pathways: how things move through the landscape and where they are made

Cleveland Bay, surveyed by Lieutenant G.E. Richards, RN, HMS Paluma, 1892. The Admiralty, London, 1892. This map shows tidal signals, depth soundings and tide information for Townsville and Magnetic Island. Also noted are the presence of buoys, coral, gravel, mud, rock, sand, shells and weed. Such detailed maps, sold by the Admiralty, were essential for mariners moving along the coast of Australia and entering Townsville Harbour. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Movable heritage of North Queensland

Heritage significance is often based on associations between specific places and particular people, groups or events.

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