Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, 1872

QLD
Australia
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1 January 1872

Location

QLD
Australia
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Brisbane
Surveyor General’s Office
12 English statute miles = 1 inch
From runs to closer settlement
Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, compiled from official records in the Crown Lands and Survey offices under the supervision of W. Alcock Tully, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1872. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office, Brisbane. Drawn on stone by H.W.Fox, Surveyor General’s Office Brisbane. Original Plan drafted by H.R. Bagot. The map key indicates ten year leases (green), resumed halves of runs (brown), surveyed runs (blue) and boundaries of runs in unsettled districts (green lines). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Queensland

From runs to closer settlement

From the 1820s, scarcity of good land led pastoralists to establish runs on the Darling Downs and east of Moreton Bay.

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Paradise goldfield, c1897

View of the goldfield in Paradise, c1897, stereographic print. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 15952

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 Royal Mail Steamers

Queensland Royal Mail Steamers, London Emigration pamphlet, c1890. Note the route from London through the Suez Canal direct to Queensland. Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Sugar planting in Queensland

Sugar planting in Queensland, Emigration pamphlet, The Times London, c1890 Courtesy Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Darling Downs and Granite Belt (tourist map), c1935

Map from tourist brochure, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, published by Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Brisbane, c1935. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Darling Downs and Granite Belt (back cover), c1935

Back cover tourist brochure, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Brisbane, c1935. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Darling Downs and Granite Belt (front cover), c1935

Front cover tourist brochure, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, published by Queensland Government Tourist Bureau, Brisbane, c1935. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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