I pretend it is a hundred million years ago, 1987

Jeannie Baker’s children’s picture-book, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, tells the story of a young boy’s imaginative engagement with the rainforest.

Len Webb and students at the opening of the Tully State High School Rainforest Reserve, 1982.

Collection of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland

Rainforest Aboriginal people, c1890.

Collection of the Cairns Historical Society, AIATSIS Negative 2111.02

Cutting through the scrub, 1848.

Environmental perceptions are seldom straightforward.

Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Location

Australia
QE1477
Queensland Museum
Wrights Creek, north-east Queensland
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
480mm
450mm
300mm

Timber souvenir bookcase, 1958

'Timber souvenir from the jungle rain forests of North Queensland', 1958. Good Wood Goods (GudWudGuds), Cairns. 'Included in this souvenir are Top and underside - Nth Qld Silky Oak, Left map - Rich Stum figured Nth Qld Maple, Right map - NQ Walnut'. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Centre for the Government of Queensland
Cairns
1 January 1958
20 October 2010

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Dimensions
127mm
292mm
141mm

Chapman was the developer of the Skyrail project. Photo by Rosita Henry, 1994

Copyright © Rosita Henry

During 1993 and 1994 the Cairns to Kuranda Skyrail became a hot political issue in North Queensland.

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