In this episode of ‘My favourite item, unraveling Brisbane’s history piece by piece’ we sit down with Bill Kitson, retired Senior Curator of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, who helps...
In this episode of ‘My favourite item, unraveling Brisbane’s history piece by piece’ we sit down with Bill Kitson, retired Senior Curator of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, who helps us understand the story behind a special topographical map from their collection.
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With special thanks
Mr Bill Kitson, retired Senior Curator of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying.
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Music
Aliaksei Yukhevich, Light Corporate, jamendo.com, Licensed.
Image
Topographical Map covering the mouth of the Brisbane River, 1 October 1889. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Map is available here: https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/historical-topographic-map-series-queensland/resource/6d910827-b053-4eba-ae54-ffea4a943380