Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon Gorge, 1980. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Copyright © Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Aboriginal rock art, Carnarvon National Park, 1967. Slides by Lynne Cain, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Lynne Cain and the Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Quinkan Aboriginal rock art near Laura, 1988. Slide by Audrey Johnston, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Audrey Johnston and the Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Plan of Bowen, 1861

Bowen, QLD
Australia
1 January 1861
14 October 2010
14 October 2010

Location

Bowen, QLD
Australia
Surveyor General’s Department

Collection Queensland State Archives

Plan of the town of Bowen, Port Denison, District of Kennedy, 1861. By Clarendon Stuart, Surveyor General’s Department. Includes sketch by Stuart of Aborigines looking towards Bowen. Collection Queensland State Archives

For Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, everything in the landscape has its place of importance according to spiritual beliefs systems, and knowledge of this has been handed down orally

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, 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
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
Longman and Co

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
14 October 2010
14 October 2010
London
John Arrowsmith

Ludwig Leichhardt's route in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... from his original map, London, John Arrowsmith, 1847

Explorer’s journals provide a fascinating insight into two peoples of different cultures becoming acquainted with each other.

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