St Lucia, 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
Brisbane

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

St Lucia, c1950. This Co-Ordinator-General’s Department topographic map of St Lucia from 1 November 1950 has been drawn over in pencil to accommodate new plans for the University Buildings and Grounds Committee. In the original map also note the proposed bridge linking St Lucia to Highgate Hill, and adjacent to the bridge the ‘Area made available by Brisbane City Council to Queensland Government for military training of University Students.’ To the left of this area also note the low lying Smyths Creek which has been largely built over, and the elevated position that the Great Court was built on. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

St Lucia Farm School from the air, 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

Layout Plan of University of Queensland site, 1950

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
Brisbane
Co-Ordinator General’s Department

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

1 inch = 100 feet

Co-Ordinator General’s Department Layout Plan of University of Queensland site, 1950. Notice the ‘Front Drive’ on the map, Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland, ms UQFL458

‘St Lucia will be no Pandora’s Box where students lift the lid and each takes what he or she requires’, declared J.J.C.

Map of Australia showing Artesian Basins, Walkabout, July 1945

Australia
1 July 1945
23 February 2011
23 February 2011

Location

Australia
Melbourne
Walkabout

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Map of Australia showing Artesian Basins, Walkabout, July 1945. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Low Isles, 1929

Low Isles, QLD
Australia
16° 22' 56.892" S, 145° 33' 39.8736" E
1 January 1929
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Low Isles, QLD
Australia
16° 22' 56.892" S, 145° 33' 39.8736" E
London
Royal Geographical Society

Collection of the University of Queensland

Map of Low Isles, 1929. From a survey by M.A. Spender assisted by Mrs T.A. Stephenson and E.C. Marchant, interior of mangrove swamp from photographs by RAAF. Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29, Reports, Volume III, Number 2. Collection of the University of Queensland

Discoveries at Low Isles

The Low Isles party had prior knowledge of many reef species from existing biological collections and taxonomies. The focus of the expedition thus turned to more curious questions about population sizes, reproduction and growth. The scientific research at Low Isles was stratified according to environmental zones and scientific method, it comprised a boat party, a shore party and a physiological or experimental party. According to Charles Yonge, ‘First of all we examined our own reef and its population, then we experimented upon, and observed the habits of, the animals and plants, and finally, equipped with the knowledge thus gained, we journeyed further afield up and down the Barrier, able to take the fullest advantage of short visits to other islands and reefs’.

One of the key findings about coral growth rates was made possible by Saville-Kent’s detailed and accurate recordings more than two decades earlier. Members of the British Expedition relocated the individual corals recorded by Saville-Kent and re-measured them to calculate annual growth. 

Landsborough’s tree, 1862

William Landsborough marked a number of trees to plot and record the route of his exploratory journey to establish an overland stock route from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Cunnamulla.

Location

Blackall Blackall, QLD
Australia
24° 25' 27.6312" S, 145° 27' 57.7548" E
H8333
Royal Historical Society of Queensland and Queensland Museum
Terrick Terrick Station, Blackall
26 April 1862
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010
Blackall Blackall, QLD
Australia
24° 25' 27.6312" S, 145° 27' 57.7548" E
Dimensions
1580mm
440mm
400mm

Eighteenth century seaman's compass

Eighteenth century seaman's compass

Location

Australia
H272
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010  
Australia
Dimensions
27mm
70mm
70mm

Fishing reel

Foreigners were made at Ipswich Railway Workshops by many employees in the various shops. They displayed the skills of those involved in their manufacture.

Location

Australia
R6164
Queensland Museum
Ipswich Railway Workshops
23 November 2010
 Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010 
Australia
Dimensions
135mm
180mm
65mm
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