The Townsville Mail ploughs through floodwaters covering the rails on the Burdekin River Bridge on the 21 March 1936. Passengers in the coaches lean out of the windows to get a good view. QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

Crossing the Burdekin by boat, 1927. Passengers from a mail train are being rowed out to another train waiting on the Burdekin River Bridge.

QR Historical Collection/The Workshops Rail Museum

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

Headquarters and signals room of Emergency Civil Defence Services, Green Street, West End (Townsville), set up in 1972 after Cyclone Althea struck in December 1971. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Lynne Clancy and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Damage from Cyclone Althea at 29 & 31 Somer Street, Hyde Park, Townsville, 24 December 1971. Photographs from inside and outside the houses. The coke-stove chimney had blown in at 31 Somer Street. Slides by Lynne Clancy, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Lynne Clancy and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Damage caused by Cyclone Ada, Collinsville, 1970. Damage was caused to the pumping station that supplied water from Bowen River to the town of Collinsville and the power station; an 'underground' pipe at the power station; and left debris on top of the pump well almost obscuring the 33000 volt transformers. Slides by Peter Petersen, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Petersen and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Damage caused by Cyclone Althea to beach facilities at Pallarenda, 1971. Slide by John Donohue, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Copyright © John Donohue and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Scenes after the Townsville cyclone, 1940. Damage occurred to the sea baths, the CWA bathing enclosure, sea wall, city baths, Estate Picture Theatre in Railway Estate, a figtree in North Ward, the rotunda in Stand Park and a cottage at the mouth of the Ross River. Photographs from North Queensland Register, 24 February 1940. Collection of John Young

Collection of John Young

Canvas water bag, c1960s

Canvas water bag, c1960s

Location

Australia
H25947
Queensland Museum
Brisbane, Queensland
29 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
355mm
350mm

Mary Watson's tank, 1881

Mary Watson, her infant son and Chinese servant Ah Sam escaped an attack by local Aboriginal people at Lizard Island in 1881 by rowing away in this iron beche-de-mer tank.

Location

Lizard Island Lizard island, QLD
Australia
14° 40' 4.9548" S, 145° 27' 49.5972" E
H43028
Queensland Museum
Lizard Island
29 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Lizard Island Lizard island, QLD
Australia
14° 40' 4.9548" S, 145° 27' 49.5972" E
Dimensions
610mm
1300mm
1250mm
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