Mount Isa, single men's accommodation, 1932. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image API-094-0001-0093

Mount Perry. From W. Blaikie, Views of Bundaberg, no date. University of Queensland Collection

Copyright © University of Queensland Library Collection 

Mount Morgan, 1890-93. Photographs (Richardson Collection), Fryer Library, University of Queensland Collection.                 

Copyright © Fryer Library, University of Queensland Collection

Mining has dramatically altered the Queensland landscape.

Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia
1 January 1926
18 October 2010
18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926. Land surveyors carefully depicted the boundaries of properties and roadways, often masking variations in the actual layout of a town. At Mount Shamrock, the mapping of leases was an important step as it was part of administrative acknowledgement of the existence of a town that had in fact been present for almost 30 years. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Geological sketch map Mount Shamrock, 1901

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia
1 January 1901
18 October 2010
18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Geological sketch map Mount Shamrock, 1901. Geologist Lionel Ball saw the landscape of Mount Shamrock in a very different way to the occupants of the town. His view was based on the geological and topographical features of the area, highlighting distinct intrusions into the country rock and mapping only the built structures associated with the resources. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Mud map of Mount Shamrock, identifying residents c1904

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia
1 January 1904
18 October 2010
18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Mud map of Mount Shamrock, identifying residents c1904. For residents of Mount Shamrock, their everyday landscape was associated with the people who lived there. This remembered landscape depicts the relative location of families, businesses and places (such as the mine, the school and the cemetery), rather than the more structured map of the town lots. In this map places and people are conflated – changes through time and actual distances are unimportant. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Sketch outlining proposed position of School Reserve, Mount Shamrock

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia
18 October 2010
18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD
Australia

Collection of Geraldine Mate

For early settlers at Mount Shamrock, a nineteenth century gold mining township west of Maryborough, the key features in their landscape were the mining operations, water, transport routes and of course the Post Office and Hotel – all important things in their everyday life. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Fig tree at Springfield (photograph Luke Keogh), Hoop Pine at Mount Shamrock (photograph Geraldine Mate), Tamarind tree at Bentic Island (photograph Daniel Rosendahl).

There is still something left behind.

Copyright © Collection of Luke Keogh, Geraldine Mate, Daniel Rosendahl

Mount Shamrock Township, 1908. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

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