Queenslanders

Emigration map of Queensland, 1865

QLD

Australia

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1 January 1865

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QLD

Australia

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Edinburgh, Scotland

1: 3,358,000 (or 53 miles to an inch)

Emigration map of Queensland, constructed from the most recent surveys and explorations by W. & A.K. Johnston, Geographers & Engravers to the Queen, Edinburgh, 1865. The map folds into pocket size, with a hard cover for protection. The world map inset shows the voyage from Edinburgh round the Cape of Good Hope through Bass Strait and up the east coast to Brisbane. The second inset map shows Australia with Queensland in green. The likely emigrant using this map may have been headed for Rockhampton, and then by rail and road to the gold diggings near Peak Downs. Hand annotations note the railway west and road to the diggings and the margin notes the “Harbour for shipping steamers from Rockhampton at head of navigation on Fitzroy River. Rockhampton population 7000 souls.” The map includes the paths of explorers Leichhardt, McKinlay, Burke, Wills, King & Grey, Landsborough, and Sturt and includes some of their observations such as ‘Low sand hills & black soil plains’.

To Frederick

We thank you for the welcome which you gave us in good rhyme,

And we like your mountains blue, and your warm and sunny clime;

Right thankfully we press the soil we travelled, for - but yet

Our dear, our native England we never can forget

Yours is a land of plenty, and almost cloudless skies,

But dearer far the land we left, - home of the great and wise.

‘T is the country of the Mind - we mean you no offence -

But we venerate its classic halls, its blight intelligence.

Its castles, towers, its palaces, it

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Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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14 April 1849

p2-3

Moreton Bay Courier

Brisbane

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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Reply to the poem 'The Welcoming to the Immigrants per Fortitude' by a passenger debunking the immigration motives expressed by Frederick, published in the newspaper Moreton Bay Courier, Brisbane, 14 April 1849, p2-3.

The Welcoming to the Immigrants per “Fortitude”

Hail! strangers, hail!

Location

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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24 February 1849

The Moreton Bay Courier

Brisbane

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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Poem published in the newspaper welcoming the immigrants on the "Fortitude", the first of the vessels to arrive in Moreton Bay under the auspices of Dr John Dunmore Lang. Moreton Bay Courier, Brisbane, 24 February 1849, p3.

Colonial immigration to Queensland

One of the first provisions made by the new Queensland Parliament in May 1860 was to encourage immigration to the vast land area encompassed by the newly declared colony. By the end of the yea

Queenslanders

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