Queensland public estate improvements, 1937

QLD
Australia
11 October 1937
25 May 2011
25 May 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Department of Public Lands

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

150 miles to an inch

Queensland public estate improvements, 1937. This map appeared in the annual report of the Land Administration Board and shows ‘improvements’ to the Queensland public estate made in 1937. Many of the ‘works in progress’ were facilitated by unemployment 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: the Kirrama Range Road, Kuranda-McKenzie’s Pocket-Black Mountain Road and Robson’s Creek Road at Danbulla. Relief Funds were also used to fill in ‘unsightly’ swamps around coastal cities and towns. Land reclamation schemes were conducted around Cairns, Sandgate and Coolangatta. Major works such as these demonstrate how the Depression was a time of both survival and profound alteration to Queensland’s cultural landscape. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
1 January 1936
12 April 2011
12 April 2011

Location

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
Department of Lands

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936. In the 1930s, the rugged jungle country west of Tully presented numerous challenges for ground survey and remained ‘practically terra incognita’ as far as the Survey Office was concerned. Developments in aerial survey provided opportunities to examine large tracts of land and determine their value for exploitation. In 1936, Adastra Airways Ltd was contracted for the aerial survey of about 650 square miles. The company established its headquarters in Cairns and despite bad weather, succeeded in surveying approximately 560 square miles. Examination of the feature maps prepared from the photography revealed extensive scrub in the Tully and Jarra Creek valleys which had the potential for settlement. In this aerial mosaic, topographic features were highlighted including the Kennedy-Kirrama road under construction which would provide access to the valuable timbers in the Kirrama State Forest. This road was partially financed through unemployment relief funds made available during the Depression. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1936-37

Principal roads in Queensland, 1979

1 January 1979
6 December 2010
6 December 2010
Queensland Main Roads Department

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Principal roads in Queensland, showing travelling times, distance and road surface, Department of Main Roads, 1979. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Railways and roads, 1935

Australia
1 January 1935
19 November 2010
19 November 2010

Location

Australia

Collection of Queensland State Archives

This map produced by the Main Roads Commission shows a comparison between the extent of roads and railways in Queensland, as at 30 September 1935. Roads are shown in solid line, with dotted line for railways. Collection of Queensland State Archives

The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people.

Memorial, Tamborine Mountain Road. Photograph by Margaret Gibson, 2009

Copyright © Collection of Margaret Gibson

Memorial, Tamborine Mountain Road. Photograph by Margaret Gibson, 2009

Copyright © Collection of Margaret Gibson

As part of the landscape of urban, regional and rural Queensland, roadside memorials remind travelers that death by road accident is both a condition and risk of enhanced human mobility.

Electoral Districts of East & West Moreton, Northern, Western & Eastern Downs, Queensland

QLD
Australia
1 January 1865

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Office of the Surveyor General, Queensland
16 miles to 1 inch
Electoral Districts of East & West Moreton, Northern, Western & Eastern Downs, Queensland from Office of the Surveyor General, Queensland, 'Atlas of the Colony of Queensland, Australia', Brisbane, Government Printing Office, 1865. Described in the Government Notice of 1 February 1866: 'EAST and WEST MORETON, and the EASTERN, WESTERN, and NORTHERN DOWNS, with portion of the LEICHHARDT and WIDE BAY DISTRICTS. Showing Towns, Railways, Electric Telegraph Lines, Principal Bush Roads and Tracks, Rivers, Creeks, Ranges, Agricultural and Village Reserves, Boundaries of Surveyed Areas, Principal Squatting Stations, &c., &c, with more than 200 miles of Coast ; also Bays, Ports, Islands, &c., according to the most recent Surveys. Scale, 16 miles to 1 inch ; size, 27 inches by 20 inches. Printed on fine paper, and colored. Price, 2s. per copy.'
Our cover shows how Highway Number 1 takes on a tropical character through northern Queensland, cover image Walkabout, December 1965. Copyright Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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