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

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Tourists from the Coral Princess snorkelling at Nathan Reef, 2005. 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 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

Coloured coral collection. Colour is one of the great pleasures of the underwater world. This collection of corals and shells was painted to represent the colours of the living reef.

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

Copyright © National Museum of Australia

Holidaymakers at the abandoned turtle cannery on Nor’West Island, c1910. Collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Copyright © Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Caravanning Queensland

6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Caravanning Queensland with the Caravan Parks Association of Queensland. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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

When news spread that Governor George Bowen’s long anticipated arrival in Brisbane in December 1859 had been delayed, the Queensland Free Press claimed ‘Pleasure arrangements were upset, a

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