surveyors

Men standing around in a surveyors camp, Queensland, ca. 1910
by State Library of Queensland, Australia

Invercargill. Ornate Queen Anne style commercial building in Dee Street. Built in 1901. Known as Alexandra Building. .
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Albury. Fantastic Art Deco style home built in 1949 but with 1950s style as well. A classic at 607 Lindsay Avenue.
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Wirrabara. Silo art on the silos that once stood beside the railway station. Artist was Sam Bates alias Smug of Melbourne.
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Nimbin. The 1970s hippy capital of Australia. An old store with a pediment from around 1910 is now the colourful Hemp Embassy. .
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Mount Bryan East. Panorama towards Mount Bryan the highest peak with purple Salvation Jane weeds and yellow dandelion weeds.
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Mt Gambier. View of the Valley Lakes from the Centenary Tower car park.
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Orange County Surveyor crew at Aliso Beach, May 6, 1993
by Orange County Archives

Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. Rain brought out the colours of the trunk of a giant River Red Gum. Eucalyptus camaldusensis.
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Mount Bryan East. Panorama towards Mount Bryan the highest peak with purple Salvation Jane weeds and yellow dandelion weeds.
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Echuca. Millewa Chambers. Built 1878 as a bond store. Note urns and symmetry of facade.
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Lights Pass in the Barossa. Strait Gate Lutheran Church. The first church built in 1861 and the bell tower in added in 1877. The 1861 church demolished in 1960 and replaced with this modern church but the 1877 bell tower was retained
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Invercargill. New Zealand. The First Presbyterian Church. One million bricks. Cost 18000 pounds. Opened 1915. The bell tower is 32 metres high. It has a Moorish look about it.
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Viking Pre-Launch Test Flight
by NASA on The Commons

Echuca. On the River Murray. Restored beams on the multi storey Echuca wharf used by paddle steamers.
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The Laguna Beach Fire, Oct. 27, 1993
by Orange County Archives

Echuca. The former Steam Packet Hotel . Built 1874. From the paddle steamer era of river boat trade.
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Invercargill. Southland. The First Presbyterian Church. One million bricks. Cost 18000 pounds. Opened 1915. The bell tower is 32 metres high. It has a Moorish look about it.
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Albury. Giant seed pods from a palm in the Albury Botanic Gardens.
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Port Pirie. Old turn of the 20th century shops and stores in Ellen Street. The Gothis style shops on the corner as known as the Federal Building built just after Australian Federation in 1901.
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Port Lincoln. Boston Bay from the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum.
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Mars Climate Orbiter
by NASA on The Commons

Hornchurch Essex
by jmc4 - Church Explorer

Milawa. The beautiful Anglican church with its witches hat spire and tower. Built in 1880.
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Silverton near Broken Hill. Umberumberka Creek. A typical desert wadi creek near the ghost town's expansive cemetery. Silverton founded in 1883 two years before Broken Hill silver mines.
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by Royalty-free image collection

Invercargill. NZ. Esk Street. The former WEA adult education premises. Built in 1912 for a spice company with older rear buildings from the 1870s hence the 1872 established sign on the building. Cat mural on wall.
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Mt Gambier. Reflections in the Valley Lake. An old volcanic crater lake.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. Therear of the impressive sandstone Catholic Church. Opened in 1893 and still in use and recently reroofed. The architect was Father Norton who was Bishop of Port Augusta from 1906. .
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Albury. Bellvue House in Kiewa Street. Built around 1860. Fine cast iron lacework railings.
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Wirrabara. Details of the beautiful silo art by Sam Bates of Melbourne. The forester and the red capped robin. There were extensive forests beyond the town.
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Wilpena Pound behind the Cazneaux tree made famous by an Australian photographer.
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Hamilton. Victoria. The Anglican Rectory next to the Co Cathedral. Built in 1898.
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Marree. A mural of horses and other animals on an old railways water tank
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Black Rock. Remains of the railway station platform, the station masters house both from 1881 and the sign about their annual Kalamazoo rail cart races.
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Invercargill. NZ. The First Presbyterian Church. One million bricks. Amazing brickwork. Cost 18000 pounds. Opened 1915. The bell tower is 32 metres high. It has a Moorish look about it.
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by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives

Adelaide. Marion. The New Church on Oaklands Road. Their first church in 1844 was off Pulteney Street but is now demolished. Church based on ideas of 18 cenutry Swedish philosopher Swedenborg.
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Nelson on the Glenelg River. War Memorial plaque.
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Marree. A mural of camels and other animals on an old railways water tank
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Barmera on Lake Bonney. Pepper tree and old chimney at the ruins of Nappers Bridge Hotel.
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Lights Pass. 150 jubilee memorial cairn to Colonel William Light the first Surveyor General of South Australia who explored here in January 1839. He died in October 1839.
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Invercargill. Classical style commercial building abutting Richard Blackham's White Swan Hotel in Dee Street. Built circa 1880 like the hotel.
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Invercargill. Ornate Queen Anne style corner commercial building in Dee Street. Known as Alexandra building and erected in 1901. .
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Dimboola. The morning after the bi annual Steam Punk Festival and the town square..
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Nimbin.NSW. Volcanic plugs in the ranges. This area is a sacred site for the local Aborginal people. Lady Cunningham's Needle. The eye for thread is visible through the rocks.
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Hamilton. Fleetwood House. Built in 1925 for a local businessman. California bungalow style with pebble veranda post supports and wood work on gables etc.
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Invercargill. Opposite the Bank of NSW is the former bank of New Zealand. Built in 1879 in classical style. Now an independent church.
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Ikara Flinders Ranges National Park. The old stone homestead or cottage in Wilpena Pound. The Pound is a natural ampitheatre surrounded by high peaks. House built around 1905.
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Surveyors at Fremont Canyon, circa 2004
by Orange County Archives

Albury. Fantastic Art Deco style home built in 1949 but with 1950s curves. A classic at 607 Lindsay Avenue.
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Nelson Victoria. Major Thomas Mitchell explored and named the Glenelg River in 1836. Limestone cliffs and water reeds and pasture lands along the river. .
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Albury. The Elm Avenue planted in the Botanic Gardens in 1877.
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Cumberland County Petersham - shewing the proposed new road from George Street south near the City
by MHNSW - State Archives Collection

Echuca. St Marys Catholic Church. Built 1875. Tower and spire added in 1890.
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Hummocks Station. Leasehold taken out in 1842. By the 1880s a 30,000 acre freehold station. Subdivided for soldier settler blocks in 1921. Magnificent gums and a lone cow with the Hummock Ranges in the background.
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1872 International Boundary Survey (49th Parallel) - wagon and campsite
by Provincial Archives of Alberta

Echuca. The Art Nouveau style American Hotel. Built in 1865 but rebuilt around 1900.
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Batlow. A flowering Sappho rhododendron in November 2024.
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Surveyor lunar lander - Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - 2012-05-15
by Tim Evanson