Darling Downs: black soil and rolling grass seas
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Article Title | Darling Downs: black soil and rolling grass seas |
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ERA Journal ID | 122851 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | French, Maurice |
Editors | Spearritt, Peter and Stell, Marion |
Journal Title | Queensland Historical Atlas |
Journal Citation | 2011, pp. 1-7 |
Number of Pages | 7 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISSN | 1838-708X |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/darling-downs |
Abstract | The quintessential Darling Downs landscape of the nineteenth century was characterised by black soil and 'rolling grass seas' which held the sheep, woolsheds and large pastoral stations of wealthy squatters. One of Queensland's most productive pastoral areas, it became celebrated in both art and literature. The Darling Downs is complex and difficult to define and locate on a map, being between 130-250 km west of Brisbane. Ranging from 500 m to 650 m above sea level, it is a distinctive cool region of Queensland bounded in the north by the Bunya Mountains, in the east by the Great Dividing Range, in the south by the Granite Belt and Herries Range, and on the west by the Condamine River. |
Keywords | squatters; pastoralists; farming; sheep production; wool production; Wacca Wacca; agriculture |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 450107. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history |
430302. Australian history | |
440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified | |
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Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Book Title | Queensland historical atlas: histories, cultures, landscapes |
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