Dreaming

Mattie and Maurice Yonge, Low Isles, 1928. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, 1825

Australia

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1 January 1825

19 November 2010

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Australia

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19 November 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, inset map 1825 to Chart of part of New South Wales and plans of the harbours, London 1827. Moreton Bay and Brisbane River map taken from Stirling’s and Lockyer surveys. Annotations show course of the Brisbane River and include tide mark, coal bed, quality of the land and soil, kangaroos, and where ‘natives’ were met. Sir Herbert Taylor’s Range and D’Aguilar’s Range noted as well as the Glass Houses to the north. 'Respectfully dedicated to John Oxley Esq, Surveyor General'. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Duboisia myoporoidis (pituri), 1923

Duboisia myoporoidis (pituri) by Adam Forster, 1923. Collection of the National Library of Australia

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Australia

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The men who blazed the track!

by Will Ogilvie

Since the toasts for the absent are over,

And duly we've pledged in our wine

15 November 2010

William Landsborough with Jemmy and Jack Fisherman, 1862. Collection State Library of Victoria

As well as serving as a police magistrate and commissioner of crown lands in Carpentaria, in 1882 Landsborough was awarded £2000 by the Government for his exploratory work. This he used to buy land at Caloundra where he later settled. He died at his property in 1886. Later his remains were taken to Toowong cemetery.

Collection State Library of Victoria

Landsborough’s Camp 69, reverse, 2008. Explorers were not alone in blazing trees, the reverse side of Landsborough’s tree shows evidence of a large Aboriginal shield being removed from the bar