Plan of Bowen, 1861

Bowen, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1861
14 October 2010
14 October 2010

Location

Bowen, QLD
Australia
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14 October 2010
Surveyor General’s Department

Collection Queensland State Archives

Curiosity
Curiosity: knowledge through the landscape

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

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Aboriginal cave drawings, 1895

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

St George’s Bridge, 1848

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

Mitchell's advance to the Maranoa, return to St George's Bridge, 1848

1 January 1848
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
Longman and Co
Mutual curiosity – Aboriginal people and explorers

Thomas Mitchell, Journal of an expedition into the interior of tropical Australia, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848, Map IV

Leichhardt's route from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, 1847

25 August 1847
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
John Arrowsmith
Mutual curiosity – Aboriginal people and explorers

Ludwig Leichhardt's route in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... from his original map, London, John Arrowsmith, 1847

Mutual curiosity – Aboriginal people and explorers

Explorer’s journals provide a fascinating insight into two peoples of different cultures becoming acquainted with each other.

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Slater's pocket map of Brisbane, 1865

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1865
14 October 2010
14 October 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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14 October 2010
Brisbane
Queensland Acclimatisation Society

Slater's pocket map of the city of Brisbane, 1865. The Queensland Acclimatisation Society gardens are shown at York's Hollow, Bowen Park.

City and environs of Brisbane, 1865

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1865
14 October 2010
14 October 2010

Location

Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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14 October 2010
Brisbane
Government Printing Office
Queensland Acclimatisation Society

City and environs of Brisbane, 1865. Atlas of the colony of Queensland, Office of the Surveyor General, Government Printing Office, Brisbane 1865. The Queensland Acclimatisation Society obtained a large grant of land at York’s Hollow to the north of Fortitude Valley. The size of this land, which is clearly marked with a light green boundary on the 1865 map of the city of Brisbane, reflects the importance given to the concept of ‘acclimatisation’ in Queensland.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society

Members of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society in the nineteenth century played a key role in the importation and experimentation with many plants.

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