Landsborough’s Camp 69, 2008

Landsborough’s Camp 69, 2008. Inscription reads V+Q EXPN/ L.C.69/ May 16 1862 Photograph by Owen Powell, 2008 

Copyright © Owen Powell

Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 2008

Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 2008 showing sedimentation on the Warrego. Photograph by Owen Powell, 2008

Copyright © Owen Powell

Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 1912

Landsborough’s Camp 67 photo taken in 1912. State Library of Queensland 

State Library of Queensland image 48162 

In search of Landsborough

Thomas Welsby, former president of the Queensland Historical Society, described his impression of the explorer William Landsborough in 1935,

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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
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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
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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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Perceptions: how people understand the landscape

‘Maps break down our inhibitions, stimulate our glands, stir our imagination, loosen our tongues’ thus spoke Carl Sauer in an essay entitled Education of a Geographer in 1956.

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