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  • Commissariat Store Museum - 115 William Street, BRISBANE
  • 09th October 2021 - 09th October 2021
  • 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • https://queenslandhistory.org/events/queenslands-earliest-surveyors-who-what-and-where/
  • 3221 4198
  • $25 RHSQ Members; $35 non-members

Queensland’s Earliest Surveyors: Who, What and Where

Conference at the Commissariat Store Museum.

This Royal Historical Society of Queensland conference will commemorate some of Queensland’s most significant early surveyors.

Speakers:

Bill Kitson – Preserving Queensland’s Surveying Heritage
Brad Dalton – Matthew Flinders: A Life Well Travelled
Darryl Low Choy – Mapping the Way: Military Surveyors of the Queensland Colonial Era
Peter Wade – The Early Surveyors of Moreton Bay
Graham Jensen – ‘Renaissance Man’: Surveyor Cecil Twisden Bedford
Stephen Sheaffe – The Trial and Execution of Mullan (aka Merridio) and Nengavil
Janet Spillman – Henry Charles Rawnsley, Controversial Surveyor and Respected Naturalist
John Pearn – Surveyors, Toponymy and Heritage
Greg Manning – Good-bye Redcoats: Robert Dixon’s Cartographic Summary of the Moreton Bay Campaign
Kaye Nardella – The Magic of Crown Survey Plans

Booking is essential. Ticket price includes the conference and morning tea. 9am registration for 9.30am start.

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