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Place Queensland

Australia

Summary

Queensland is the second-largest state of Australia spanning the continent's northeast. Its coastline stretches nearly 7000 km and is well known for having the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef, and the tropical Daintree Rainforest. Queensland contains many areas of natural beauty including six world heritage-listed preservation areas. It has a population of 4.5 million which is concentrated along the coast and in the state's south east where Brisbane, the capital city is located. It is thought that Aboriginals came to Queensland via boat or land bridge across the Torres Strait prior to 50,000 BC. They then divided into over 90 different language groups. The first recorded landing of a European in Australia and the first recorded contact between European and Aboriginal Australian people was in 1606 by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon who landed near what is now known as Weipa, on the western shore of Cape York. French and Portuguese explorers followed later and then Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 who claimed the east coast under instruction from King George III of England. The Indigenous population in Queensland was decimated when European explorers brought smallpox with them in the late eighteenth century. According to the 2011 census, 155,824 residents of Queensland identified as being of Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander origin. The 2011 census also indicated that 64% of Australia's Torres Strait Islander population and 24.8% of Australia's Aboriginal population lived in Queensland.

Archival resources

National Centre for Indigenous Genomics

  • Correspondence, 1969, 02D-37; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Correspondence, 1974 - 1975, 02D-36; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Correspondence, 1967 - 1969, 02D-35; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Infants' Weight Charts, 1969 - 1974, 06A-10; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Printed Material, 1969 - 1982, PUB 61-70; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Results Sheets, 1972 - 1973, 06A-15; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Survey Results, 1977, 02D-44; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details
  • Survey Results, Draft Manuscript, Bibliography, Tribal Index, Hand Drawn Maps and Correspondence, 1945 - 1968, 04B-06; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details