Whale boat plan, 1950

QLD
Australia
3 February 1950
20 May 2011
20 May 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Department of Harbours and Marine

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

three quarters of an inch to a foot

Whale boat plan, 1950. These building plans show the dimensions of a bondwood whale boat used in the 1950s. According to the plans, the boat was just over 22 feet long. Measured in centum weight (cws), it would weigh less if made from bolly-gum. The longitudinal section in the top left corner shows two air tanks at the front and back of the boat. These tanks would have been used to fill whale carcasses with compressed air after the kill. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Proposed site for whaling station, Tangalooma, 1952

Tangalooma, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 39.9792" S, 153° 22' 29.5752" E
24 January 1952
20 May 2011
20 May 2011

Location

Tangalooma, QLD
Australia
27° 10' 39.9792" S, 153° 22' 29.5752" E
Department of Harbours and Marine

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

500 feet to one inch

Proposed site for whaling station, Tangalooma, 1952. This map shows the location of the proposed Tangalooma whaling station to be built on Moreton Island. At a closer scale of 50 feet to one inch, the inset in the top right corner shows the proposed jetty. Surveyed by A.H. Krummel, it shows the water depths which extend out into Moreton Bay. These were measured in feet taken at low water datum. Chosen by the Australian Company Whale Products Pty Ltd, Tangalooma became the site of the largest whaling station in the southern hemisphere. It was selected for four main reasons: the site was sheltered from the ocean, it had a large supply of fresh water, it was on the migratory path of the Humpback whale and it was close to Brisbane. The first two humpback whales were killed in June 1952, but within ten years the whale population had been severely depleted and the station closed. In June 1963, the station was bought by property developers and turned into a resort where tourists now leave from the jetty on whale watching tours. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

The data board, Tangalooma whaling station, 1960. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Richard Hopkins and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Staff quarters, Tangalooma whaling station, 1960. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Richard Hopkins and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Administration offices, Tangalooma Whaling Station, 1960. Slide by Richard Hopkins, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Richard Hopkins and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, 2010

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