Stand today in the terminals at Sydney or Melbourne airport and chances are you can identify a plane-load of Queenslanders walking up the aerobridge by the way they look.

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

Chart of the NE Coast of Australia, 1819-21

1 January 1824
2 December 2010
2 December 2010
London
Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Chart of the NE Coast of Australia by Phillip P. King Commander RN, 1819-21, Sheet 3. Published by the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, London, 1824. Cook, Flinders and King were among the first navigators who gave a detailed outline of Queensland’s coast. Collection of the National Library of Australia 

Pearl divers, Thursday Island, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Pearl shell on the wharf, Thursday Island, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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Victoria Memorial Institute, Thursday Island, 1958.

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Cooking turtle, Torres Strait, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Girls on parade for church, Aurukun. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Children and older girls, Weipa, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Pearling lugger Reliance with skipper J.

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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