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Aerial survey Cooktown to Daintree, Map 3, 1940. This series of maps of areas in Far North Queensland was maintained by the Main Roads Commission as part of road construction projects. The Cooktown-Daintree maps, printed December 1940, were compiled from aerial photographs controlled by a triangulation survey made by the Commissioner's field staff. Collection of Lands Museum, Queensland

Aerial survey Cooktown to Daintree, Map 1, 1940. This series of maps of areas in Far North Queensland was maintained by the Main Roads Commission as part of road construction projects. The Cooktown-Daintree maps, printed December 1940, were compiled from aerial photographs controlled by a triangulation survey made by the Commissioner's field staff. Collection of Lands Museum, Queensland

Key to Queensland public estate improvement works, 1937. This key to public works, complete or in progress, accompanied a map which appeared in the annual report of the Land Administration Board in 1937. Many of the works listed here were facilitated by relief funds made available under the Income (Unemployment Relief) Tax Acts, 1930 to 1935. Works included building a road between Amity Point and Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island as well as new forestry access roads in northern Queensland at Danbulla, Kuranda and to the top of the Kirrama Range. Land reclamation schemes were conducted around Cairns, Sandgate and Coolangatta. Major works such as these were conducted to help the unemployed survive in the Depression era, but these changes also caused a profound alteration to Queensland’s cultural landscape. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937