Town of Paradise, 1891

Paradise, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1891

Location

Paradise, QLD
Australia
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Brisbane
Surveyor General's Office
4 chains to an inch
Order in Paradise: a colonial gold field

The Paradise survey of 1891. Allen Street bisected the river flat while the cross streets ascended the ridges behind the flat to meet River View Terrace. Town of Paradise (Paradise Gold Field) Parish of Coringa, County of Cook, Maryborough Land Agent's District, printed and published at the Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane, 1891, price 1 shilling. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Order in Paradise: a colonial gold field

The gold mining town of Paradise once stretched for more than a kilometre along the southern bank of the Burnett River in Central Queensland.

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Queensland showing subdivision of sheets, 1927

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1927

Location

QLD
Australia
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2 July 2010
Brisbane
Queensland Parliamentary Papers
Queensland mapping since 1900
Queensland showing subdivision of sheets, Surveyor General's Report, 1927. This map illustrates the significant change in 1927 to the systematic mapping of Queensland.

Geological survey of Queensland, 1928-29

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

Location

QLD
Australia
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1:2,500,000
Geological survey of Queensland
Map 'The Geological survey of Queensland', prepared by Benjamin Dunstan 1928-29, from the Edgeworth David Collection in the National Library of Australia. It was based on the 1905 Geological Sketch map of Queensland. It was probably sent by Dunstan to Edgeworth David. Courtesy, National Library of Australia

Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1928

Location

QLD
Australia
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2 July 2010
1:3,000,000
Geological survey of Queensland

This hand-drawn and hand-painted map from the Edgeworth David collection in the National Library of Australia, is a Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1928-29. It is probably a tracing done by Edgeworth David and sent to Queensland for correction. He could safely send this copy to Queensland without any fear of something happening to his original compilation. Courtesy National Library of Australia

Geological survey of Queensland

The 1928-29 map ‘Preliminary plot of Queensland section of Geological map of the Commonwealth of Australia’ is a good illustration of the state of the technology of map creation at the time that it

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Queensland mapping since 1900

Every stage in the mapping of Queensland reflects both the changing perceptions of the country, and the state of contemporary technology.

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Mapping a new colony, 1860-80

During the late 1850s, pastoralists in New South Wales were pushing the boundaries of settlement ever northward throughout what would become the new colony of Queensland.

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Population Table, Queensland 1860-84

Population Table, Queensland 1860-84, detail from Robert McLean (ed), The new atlas of Australia, Queensland, John Sands, Sydney 1886, p 11

Crown Lands in Queensland, 1860-84

Table showing Crown Lands in Queensland, 1860-84, detail from Robert Mclean (ed), The new atlas of Australia, Queensland, John Sands Sydney, 1886, p 18
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