Steiger Vortex rain-making gun, c1900

The Steiger Vortex gun is a cone-shaped barrel, fabricated from sheet steel, designed as a rainmaking device.

Location

Charleville, QLD
Australia
Queensland Museum
Brisbane
1 January 1902
1 January 1902
29 October 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010
Charleville, QLD
Australia
Dimensions
5000mm
1505mm
1020mm

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Solomon Island canoe paddle, 1884

Location

Solomon Islands
E4508
Queensland Museum
Solomon Islands
1 January 1884
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum

Solomon Islands
Dimensions
1412mm
413mm

Basket

Location

Australia
28 October 2010
Australia

Cotton reel furniture

Cotton reel furniture

Location

Australia
H26644
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
435mm
620mm
235mm

Watering can

Location

Australia
28 October 2010
Australia

Average annual number of tropical cyclones

1 January 2006
27 October 2010
27 October 2010
Australian Government

Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Average annual number of tropical cyclones using 36 years of data (1969-2006 tropical cyclone seasons), Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government 2006

Tropical cyclones, 1906-2006

1 January 2006
27 October 2010
27 October 2010

Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

The path of tropical cyclones in eastern Australia from 1906 to 2006. Each coloured line represents a cyclone. Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government

Cyclone by Vance Palmer, 1947

That wind, Fay Donolly was thinking as she woke, it was like a spiteful bird, swooping down and lifting away. She saw it as a brown sea-eagle, poised somewhere in the void above the house, watching with baleful eyes for a chance to strike in earnest. Now it was still as death, now it made a show of dropping for the kill. And the screech of its wings, as it swept down, stopped the heart for a moment, so that it started again with a flutter.

Opening paragraph of Vance Palmer, Cyclone, A & R, Sydney, 1947

1 January 1947
27 October 2010
27 October 2010
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