Curiosity

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1980. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon National Park, 1967. Slides by Lynne Cain, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Quinkan Aboriginal rock art near Laura, 1988. Slide by Audrey Johnston, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Plan of Bowen, 1861

Bowen, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1861

14 October 2010

Location

Bowen, QLD

Australia

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14 October 2010

Surveyor General’s Department

Collection Queensland State Archives

Plan of the town of Bowen, Port Denison, District of Kennedy, 1861. By Clarendon Stuart, Surveyor General’s Department. Includes sketch by Stuart of Aborigines looking towards Bowen. Collection Queensland State Archives

Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape

For Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, everything in the landscape has its place of importance according to spiritual beliefs systems, and knowledge of this has been handed down orally

Robert Logan Jack, Aboriginal cave-drawings on the Palmer gold fields, Plate 1, Royal Society of Queensland, vol XI, 1895

St George’s Bridge, Mitchell’s Journal, Plate II. Thomas Mitchell, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848