Survival

How the landscape impacts on people.

Survival: how the landscape impacts on people

Queensland’s historical landscape encapsulates the tension between threat and survival.

Depression era

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

Droughts and floods and rail

Survival in Queensland during climatic extremes has often relied on the rail network.

Missions and reserves

‘Surviving the system’

Queensland British Food Corporation

Early in 1948 the Central Highlands of Queensland was abuzz with excitement. An organisation known as the Queensland British Food Corporation (QBFC) had formed to begin farming on a massive scale.

Rockhampton’s great flood of 1918

In the days before roads and railway to Brisbane, the Fitzroy River provided all transport and communications for much of Central Queensland through the port of Rockhampton.

Station homesteads

The station homestead was an important landscape feature that assisted the establishment and survival of the Queensland pastoral industry and the community of people associated with the industry.

Tropical cyclones

It is claimed that tropical cyclones are the most feared weather phenomena to affect Australia.

Wreck of the SS Quetta

When the schooner Quetta was wrecked on a reef in the Torres Strait in 1890 with 134 lives lost, repercussions of the disaster were felt in every embarkation port dow