Cherbourg musician Angus Rabbitt (left) and others performing

Cherbourg musician Angus Rabbitt (left) and others performing, Collection Ration Shed Museum

Collection © Ration Shed Museum

Barambah Aboriginal Settlement in the 1920s showing the areas of Bralbin Creek and also Muddy Flats, 2001

Cherbourg, QLD
Australia
26° 17' 30.804" S, 151° 57' 21.1968" E
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1 January 2001
2 September 2011
2 September 2011

Location

Cherbourg, QLD
Australia
26° 17' 30.804" S, 151° 57' 21.1968" E
See map: Google Maps
2 September 2011
St Lucia
University of Queensland Press

Reproduced with permission from Thom Blake

Cherbourg that’s my home: celebrating landscape through song

Cherbourg that’s my home: celebrating landscape through song

Music is a source of great pleasure and an expression of connection to land and history for Aboriginal people of Cherbourg.

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Cape Grenville to Booby Island, 1945

Albany Island, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1945
30 June 2011
30 June 2011

Location

Albany Island, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
30 June 2011
Sydney

Queensland Maritime Museum

Shipwrecks as graves
Wreck of the Quetta

Cape Grenville to Booby Island, 1945. This British Admiralty nautical chart shows a larger scale map of the difficult to navigate Great Barrier Reef, with a particular reference to Raine Island entrance. With shoals, reefs, small islands and ‘numerous sunken patches’, this map of the North Queensland coast shows the precarious waterways that had to be navigated to maintain survival. In the lower part of the map, near the dial showing the magnetic north, it states, ‘unexamined but considered dangerous navigation’. North of Albany Island Quetta Rock and the location of the wreck are marked. Interestingly, this map is also marked with the memory of shipwrecks when in the 1970s the map was used to mark the location of various wrecks. These included: the Quetta wreck , the wreck of HMS Pandora and a canon found on the Great Detached Reef. Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum

Adolphus Channel with Albany Pass, 1937

Albany Island, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1937
30 June 2011
30 June 2011

Location

Albany Island, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
30 June 2011
London
British Admiralty

Queensland Maritime Museum

Wreck of the Quetta

Adolphus Channel with Albany Pass, 1937. This British Admiralty nautical chart of the north Queensland coast was completed by Captain W.J.L. Wharton on the surveying ship ‘Paluma’ in 1890. North of Albany Island this map marks both Quetta Rocks and the site of the Quetta wreck. Additions were made to the original 1890 map up until this published version in 1937. Following the wreck of the Quetta, one of these additions to the original chart was to mark a safe passage through the precarious Adolphus Channel. Between Albany Island and the Brother Islands, a line following 123 degrees can be observed that passes from the North Brother island with a high point of 40ft through the channel past Quetta Rocks. With these lines for navigation and additions such as the inset side view on the chart showing the entrance to Albany Island, navigational charts helped mariners survive difficult sea voyages. Collection of the Queensland Maritime Museum

Kirrama Range Road, Lumholtz, 1937

Kirrama Range Road, Lumholtz, 1937. During the Depression, the Queensland Department of Forestry built three major access roads: the Kirrama Range Road, Kuranda-McKenzie’s Pocket-Black Mountain Road and Robson’s Creek Road at Dunbulla. The Unemployment Relief Fund covered three fifths of the total cost, which was carried out by the full-time employed at award rates and conditions. These images show works conducted on the Kirrama Range Road which would provide access to approximately 100 million feet of timber. Works such as this were a vital source of employment during the Depression. They also resulted in the modification of vast tracts of land. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937  

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Assistance to cotton growers, Upper Burnett and Callide Valley, 1937

Assistance to cotton growers, Upper Burnett and Callide Valley, 1937. Under the Cotton Production Relief Scheme, advances were made to ‘necessitous' cotton growers in the Upper Burnett and Callide Valleys. In 1937, a total of £20,000 was made available from the Unemployment Relief Scheme of which just over £14,317 was spent. These images show the clearing and burning of native vegetation to make way for increased cotton production. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937  

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Land reclamation for seaside allotments and recreation, Sandgate, 1937

Land reclamation for seaside allotments and recreation, Sandgate, 1937. These images appeared in the 1936-37 annual report of the Land Administration Board and show the progress of swamp-filling and land reclamation at Sandgate. The top image shows mangrove and ti-tree swamp cleared prior to filling. Soil was excavated and brought by tractor on light tracks before being dumped into the swamp. A little over half of the costs came from the Unemployment Relief Scheme. Each week, an average of 50 gained employment. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937   

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Sandgate land reclamation, 1937

Sandgate land reclamation, 1937. These images appeared in the seventh annual report of the Department of Labour and Industry on the ‘operations and proceedings’ under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930 to 1935. To provide work for the unemployed, approval was granted for the reclamation of ti-tree and mangrove swamps at Sandgate. The total cost to June 1937 was just over £4000 and over half came from the Unemployment Relief Fund. Work was carried out under the supervision of the Public Estate Improvement Branch ‘as a full-time job on award rates and conditions’. These images show the progress of the land reclamation scheme. The report stated that ‘besides proving a great benefit to the Greater Brisbane Area by the removal of an unhealthy swamp, the land, when reclaimed would be highly suitable for utilisation as building sites, esplanade, and parking areas'. Each week, an average of 50 gained employment. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937  

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Views of Mount Spec Road, near Paluma, 1937

Views of Mount Spec Road, near Paluma, 1937. These images appeared in the seventh annual report of the Queensland Department of Labour and Industry on the ‘operations and proceedings’ under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930 to 1935. To provide work for the unemployed during the Depression, the Main Roads Commission authorised various relief schemes throughout Queensland. In 1937, the Commission was allocated just under £15,000 in relief funds, a major reduction from the previous year. Some of these funds went towards building new tourist roads in scenic areas such as Mount Nebo and Mount Spec. These images show works completed on the Mount Spec Road, north of Townsville. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

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