Venus block, Tinnenburra, 1935

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
27 November 1935
9 May 2011
9 May 2011

Location

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E

Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Venus block, Tinnenburra, 1935. This map shows two of Queensland’s major pastoral investment companies abutting one another. Bordering with Thurulgoona, ‘Venus block’ was the most easterly paddock of Tinnenburra. Thurulgoona was owned by the Squatting Investment Company and had leased this land for a number of years. In 1934, the AML&F manager in Sydney, Mr R. Sinclair Smith, informed the Squatting Investment Company of their intention to terminate the agreement and fence off the block within Tinnenburra. In anticipation of the transfer, the local manager of Thurulgoona inspected the fences and found that they did not correspond with the surveyed boundaries. In a letter to his superiors in the Squatting Investment Company, the manager provided this rough map and explained that altering the existing agreement would be complicated. The pegs and original blazed trees were all non-existent and would need re-surveying. This would cost at least £50. The existing north-south fence would then have to be moved 50 chains west. In addition to over seven miles of new fencing, this would cost approximately £250. According to the Thurulgoona manger, the fences were probably put in the wrong place to evade the high sand hill country in the area, not suitable for erecting rabbit proof netting over. As both parties had only limited tenure on their respective leases, changing the arrangement would have no benefit. A more pragmatic solution was therefore chosen. As compensation for keeping Venus, Thurulgoona exchanged a small square parcel of land with Tinnenburra. This provided access to one of Thurulgoona’s bore drains from Tinnenburra’s ‘Gidgie Camp’ paddock and remained a novel feature of the ‘Bluegrass’ pastoral holding after Tinnenburra was sub-divided. Held in archives around Australia, pastoral run files often contain rough hand drawn maps. In this instance they demonstrate how boundaries can be a physical reminder of past activities and corporate decisions. Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Queensland areas surveyed and mapped, 1915

Australia
1 January 1915
12 April 2011
12 April 2011

Location

Australia
Department of Lands

Queensland areas surveyed and mapped, 1915. Included in the Surveyor General’s annual report of 1915, was the amount of land mapped and surveyed across Queensland the previous year. District and staff surveyors had the responsibility of designing and surveying new selections and reserves. This map displayed the relative progress in each land agent's district. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1915-16

Key to Queensland four mile map series, 1915

Australia
1 January 1915
12 April 2011
12 April 2011

Location

Australia
Department of Lands

Key to Queensland four mile map series, 1915. In June 1915, the Surveyor General presented his annual report on mapping and surveying activities in Queensland. This included a map of progress conducted over the last year on the four mile to an inch, or ‘four mile’ map series. This map included the location of stations used for calculating latitude and longitude and provided a table of town coordinates established by astronomical observation. The area covered by major triangulation was limited to south east Queensland. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1915-16

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
1 January 1936
12 April 2011
12 April 2011

Location

Kennedy, QLD
Australia
18° 12' 17.8812" S, 145° 57' 21.8772" E
Department of Lands

Aerial survey map west of Tully, 1936. In the 1930s, the rugged jungle country west of Tully presented numerous challenges for ground survey and remained ‘practically terra incognita’ as far as the Survey Office was concerned. Developments in aerial survey provided opportunities to examine large tracts of land and determine their value for exploitation. In 1936, Adastra Airways Ltd was contracted for the aerial survey of about 650 square miles. The company established its headquarters in Cairns and despite bad weather, succeeded in surveying approximately 560 square miles. Examination of the feature maps prepared from the photography revealed extensive scrub in the Tully and Jarra Creek valleys which had the potential for settlement. In this aerial mosaic, topographic features were highlighted including the Kennedy-Kirrama road under construction which would provide access to the valuable timbers in the Kirrama State Forest. This road was partially financed through unemployment relief funds made available during the Depression. Queensland parliamentary papers, Vol 2, 1936-37

Perambulator survey of runs in West Maranoa, 1863

Charleville, QLD
Australia
26° 24' 4.842" S, 146° 14' 22.7508" E
1 January 1863
11 April 2011
11 April 2011

Location

Charleville, QLD
Australia
26° 24' 4.842" S, 146° 14' 22.7508" E
Department of Lands

Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland

Perambulator survey of runs in West Maranoa, 1863. In the unsettled districts of western Queensland, pastoral boundaries often amounted to little more than a surveyor’s blazed tree. Early plans produced for the Lands Department recorded their location as well as other landscape features. Conducted in 1863, the first survey of the upper Warrego River recorded the location of two Landsborough camp sites. Made on the 9 May 1862, ‘camp 66’ is depicted on the east bank of the Warrego, not far from a ‘well watered creek’ described by Edmund Kennedy in 1847. Within a newly surveyed 32,000 acre block, Landsborough’s ‘camp 67’ is depicted near the junction of the Warrego and Ward Rivers. The Lands Department continued using this map to later record town reserves and land resumptions. Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane

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

Kennedy's octant, 1848

Kennedy's octant, 1848

Location

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD
Australia
12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E
H311
Queensland Museum
Pascoe River, Cape York Peninsula
1 January 1848
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Pascoe River Lockhart, QLD
Australia
12° 47' 15.0432" S, 143° 20' 40.4196" E
Dimensions
345mm
235mm
75mm

Photographic portrait of T.W. Edgeworth David by Judith Fletcher, c1916. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Contour farming, Durong, 1958. Slide by John Thun, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Thun and Centre for the Government of Queensland

Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, 1872

QLD
Australia
1 January 1872

Location

QLD
Australia
Brisbane
Surveyor General’s Office
12 English statute miles = 1 inch
Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, compiled from official records in the Crown Lands and Survey offices under the supervision of W. Alcock Tully, Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, 1872. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office, Brisbane. Drawn on stone by H.W.Fox, Surveyor General’s Office Brisbane. Original Plan drafted by H.R. Bagot. The map key indicates ten year leases (green), resumed halves of runs (brown), surveyed runs (blue) and boundaries of runs in unsettled districts (green lines). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Queensland
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