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Natural Queensland

Explore collections capturing Queensland’s beauty and its most powerful natural events.

Holloways Beach, via Cairns, North Queensland 1966
Roy R. Ross colour slides 1960-1970
A collection of coloured slides showcases different Queensland locations photographed during the 1960s.
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Part of the front cover, showing the logo of the Brisbane Bushwalkers Club, October 1981 edition
The Brisbane Bushwalker
Explore Brisbane’s biggest walking club's monthly newsletters.
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Colour plate V, illustrated in The Great Barrier Reef of Australia: its products and potentialities, 1893
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia by W. Saville-Kent
Explore Saville-Kent’s vivid account of the Great Barrier Reef, with early photographs and colour illustrations of marine life.
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Film footage taken in 1948 of the Brown family holidaying on the Great Barrier Reef
Sylvia Brown Films, 1948
Watch a home movie capturing underwater footage and scenes of the Great Barrier Reef and Palm Island.
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Murphys Creek rural fire brigade shed which was damaged extensively by the flood
Amanda Gearing Queensland Flood Collection, 2011
Explore a collection of oral histories, images and records from the 2011 Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley floods.
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Minna Suchter surrounded by debris, cradles a doll rescued from a Tully home after Cyclone Yasi
Queensland Floods and Cyclone Yasi footage, 2011
Watch two short films capturing the impact of the 2011 Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi, using historic news footage.
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