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Afghan cameleers in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The introduction of camels and the so-called 'Afghan' cameleers proved to be a turning point in the exploration and development of the Australian interior. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 14739. Image courtesy of the State Libra...

The changing face of early Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

A lady holding a small child [Quarantine Station], Tom Gray Collection, 3. Image courtesy of Manly Quarantine Station. Eventually, the arrival of people from diverse societies created a cultural diversity that is now an integral part of Australian society...

The Canning Stock Route - Australia's Culture Portal

Creating the Canning Stock Route was the answer to a host of challenges presented by the Australian outback. Surveyed and created in the early 1900s, the scale of the Canning Stock Route is epic. John Carty, oral historian and anthropologist from the Au...

Cobb Co. – an Australian transport icon - Australia's Culture Portal

For 70 years from the 1850s to the 1920s, Cobb & Co. coaches were a principle means of transport in the colonies of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Even larger numbers of people, many of whom lived in remote country towns, stations or settlemen...

The changing face of modern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. The hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Australia after the First World War greatly influenced Australia becoming a modern society. Image courtesy of the Australian War ...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

The Overland Telegraph - Australia's Culture Portal

Jack Laver, Bob Carew up a pole of the Overland Telegraph Line, 1921. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: b2100793. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 6793....

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Afghan cameleers in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

The introduction of camels and the so-called 'Afghan' cameleers proved to be a turning point in the exploration and development of the Australian interior. Image courtesy of the State Library of South Australia: B 14739. In 1893, Wade moved to Bourke, NS...

Australia's Muslim Cameleers   (website Flinders Ranges Research )

This superbly illustrated book brings to life the vital role that Muslim cameleers from Afghanistan and British India played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. European exploration and settlement of ...

Immigration Museum: Australia,Äôs Muslim Cameleers   (website(s) Museum Victoria    Immigration Museum )

The resources focus on the lives of the Muslim cameleers who travelled to Australia between 1860 and the 1930s. They complement the Immigration Museum exhibition Australia,Äôs Muslim Cameleers ,Äì Pioneers of the Inland. Notes on the exhibition and curri...

Immigration Museum: Australia,Äôs Muslim Cameleers   (website(s) Museum Victoria    Immigration Museum )

Students work collaboratively in small groups exploring the contents of the exhibition in order to come to some understanding of the role of the cameleers in the exploration and settlement of central Australia. >Student activities and teacher support mat...

Museum Victoria: Muslim Cameleers   (website Museum Victoria )

Sharing MV with your friends. Well go no further than the Immigration Museum and experience Central Australia through the eyes of Australia,Äôs Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s,Äì1930s. Date: Saturday 20 March 2010>Time: 2,Äì4pm>Cost: MV me...

Immigration Museum: Australia's Muslim Cameleers   (website Museum Victoria )

Explore the remarkable impact of Australia's Muslim cameleers in transforming central Australia. This exhibition reveals the remarkable contribution which Australia’s first Muslim community, from Afghanistan and British India, made to the exploratio...

Wakefield Press Australias Muslim Cameleers   (website Wakefield Press )

Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia s Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneer...

Immigration Museum: Teacher Preview: Australia,Äôs Muslim Cameleers   (website(s) Museum Victoria    Immigration Museum )

This preview session will incorporate a viewing of the exhibition, discussion of the student activities and an explanation of the online resources available to support this exhibition. Tuesday 2 March, 3pm-5pm>Thursday 4 March, 3pm-5pm>Tuesday 20 April, 3...

Exporting Australian Camels, Camels in Australia, Afghan Cameleers, Camel Endurance Racing   (website Fiona Lake Photography )

However Australia now has hundreds of thousands of wild camels, the largest population of wild camels in the world. Camel Industry information can also be obtained from the Camels Australia Export website, and the Department of Environment. There is a le...

Alice Springs News, June 7, 2007   (website Alice Springs News )

The spokesperson says: Until 2005, the Alice Springs Town Council was responsible for an Environmental Health Service for the whole of Alice Springs. Tangentyere Council leaders were quoted in the latest Weekend Australian on difficulties related to the ...

Browsing by tag 'camels' - Museum Victoria   (website Museum Victoria )

Two camels from the Mardie and Onslow camel train yoked to a fully loaded wagon, dated 1913. Camel team with fourteen camels in Ooldea, South Australia. A Ford Tourer Model B car and two men with their camel team consisting of four camels in the Coober P...

National Museum of Australia - Audio on demand - Historical Interpretation series   (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )

If you have been following Mike,Äôs blog you will know that he,Äôs been sleeping under the stars and travelling with camels in the Simpson Desert. He is an archaeologist and a senior research fellow at the National Museum of Australia,Äôs Centre for Histo...

National Library Of Australia | Media zone   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

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