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So wrote Caroline Landsborough, from Batavia (modern day Jakarta, Indonesia) in August 1868 to her…
Lightships were used in various locations in Queensland as an effective means to protect shipping…
The Amy was an small iron steamer of around thirty-four tons, which had been built…
Albatross Bay, within which the town of Weipa is located, is situated on the western…
The town of Burketown, located on the Albert River, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, has…
Earlier this month the John Oxley Library was pleased to accept a somewhat unusual donation.…
'Burke's Flaming Ocean' was a name given to the Gulf of Carpentaria in tribute to…