Map of the artesian basin depicting southern outlet, 1920

Australia
1 January 1920
25 February 2011
25 February 2011

Location

Australia
Queensland geographical journal

Map appeared in J. Richert’s 1920 article ‘The flowing wells of western Queensland’ published in the Queensland geographical journal. The map depicts a geological fracture where artesian water ‘leaks’ into the Great Australian Bight. According to Richert, the origins of artesian water were both plutonic and meteoric. J. Richert, ‘The flowing wells of western queensland,’ Queensland geographical journal, 34, 1920

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Clover Lake Bore, Coongoola, south-west Queensland, c1910, photograph taken during hydraulic survey of western Queensland. Collection of the Queensland State Archives, Item 1176001

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Song of the Artesian Water, 1896

Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought,
But we're sick of prayers and Providence - we're going to do without,
With the derricks up above us and the solid earth belo

Location

Australia
1 January 1896
25 February 2011
25 February 2011
The bulletin
Australia

Rail survey plan depicting creek running with artesian water, 1895

Australia
1 January 1895
25 February 2011
25 February 2011

Location

Australia

Collection of The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich

Rail survey plan depicting creek running with artesian water, 1895. Prior to construction, the Charleville to Cunnamulla railway was surveyed in 1895. Recorded landscape features were measured in distance from Charleville in miles, chains and links. There are 80 chains to a mile and 100 links to a chain. The Kudnapper Creek nearly 99 miles from Charleville, is shown to be running with artesian water from a local bore. Charleville and Cunnamulla Railway Permanent Survey, 0-121M. Collection of The Workshops Rail Museum, Ipswich

Dillalah Bore, south-west Queensland c1910, photograph taken during hydraulic survey of western Queensland. Collection of the Queensland State Archives, Item 123030

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is a geological curiosity.

Model of possible St Lucia layout from the ideas of J.J.C Bradfield, c1936. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia from Dutton Park, c1936. Photographed by J.J.C. Bradfield, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms F3376

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia layout, c1950

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1950
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia layout, c1950. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

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