When news spread that Governor George Bowen’s long anticipated arrival in Brisbane in December 1859 had been delayed, the Queensland Free Press claimed ‘Pleasure arrangements were upset, a

Tea-towel: Great Keppel Island

Great Keppel Island, QLD
Australia
23° 10' 42.2256" S, 150° 56' 53.4804" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Great Keppel Island, QLD
Australia
23° 10' 42.2256" S, 150° 56' 53.4804" E

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Great Keppel Island. Great Keppel Island is the largest in the Keppel Group of fourteen islands which was named when Captain James Cook passed by in 1770. The land area of this national park covers some 1400 hectares and is surrounded by 17 white sand beaches. The first resort established in 1967, was taken over by Trans-Australian Airlines in 1975 and was closed in 2008 for redevelopment. Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Barrier Reef Pleasure Islands

Great Barrier Reef, QLD
Australia
17° 49' 12" S, 146° 49' 30" E
3 December 2010
3 December 2010

Location

Great Barrier Reef, QLD
Australia
17° 49' 12" S, 146° 49' 30" E
Ireland
Lamont

Collection of Glenn Cooke

Tea-towel: Barrier Reef Pleasure Islands. Collection of Glenn Cooke

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. 

Percy Isles to Whitsunday Island, 1803-1951

Australia
1 January 1951
2 December 2010
2 December 2010

Location

Australia
London
The Admiralty

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Percy Isles to Whitsunday Island, 1803-1951. This map published by the Admiralty in 1951 shows the accumulation of surveys and the origin of the coastal charts. Information is taken from a joint Admiralty & Colonial Survey 1873-79, with additions from Captains Flinders, King, Blackwood, Owen Stanley, Yule, Dayman, Denham, Nares and Maclear 1803-81, Edgell, Bennett and Henderson 1926-29, and RAAF aerial reconnaissance 1926. Corrections were made in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1951. A note on the map states 'The delimitation of the outer edge of the Barrier Reef has not been satisfactorily established'. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Magnetic Island

Magnetic Island. Ceramic produced by the pottery company Studio Anna, founded by Karel Jungvirt and Toni Coles.

Location

Magnetic Island, QLD
Australia
19° 10' 42.3156" S, 146° 50' 16.8864" E
Centre for the Government of Queensland
23 November 2010

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Magnetic Island, QLD
Australia
19° 10' 42.3156" S, 146° 50' 16.8864" E

Holiday on South Molle Island, c1950

Holiday on South Molle Island, c1950. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Location

South Molle Island, QLD
Australia
20° 16' 12.1332" S, 148° 50' 10.6836" E

Magnetic Island the beautiful, c1950

Magnetic Island the beautiful, c1950. Graphic design by W Badcoe. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Location

Magnetic Island, QLD
Australia
19° 10' 42.3156" S, 146° 50' 16.8864" E
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