Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
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Landscapes
Landscapes
"Black Mountain", a spectacular geological feature.
South of Cooktown on Mareeba road, Queensland, 1959."Broken Nose", a local term for the southern sloping summit of Mt Bartle Frere, as seen (during rainy shower) from coastal plain sugar lands near Innisfail.
Atherton Tableland, Queensland, 1960s."Broken Nose", a local term for the southern sloping summit of Mt Bartle Frere, as seen from Lamond's Hill.
Atherton Tableland, Queensland, 1960s."Where tropical rainforest meets the sea", with narrow strip of pan-Pacific strand forest with coconuts, casuarinas, calophyllums, etc.
Cape Tribulation, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1971.A small portion of the vast picturesque sandstone and vegetation features of West Arnhem Land Escarpment.
West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, May 1978.A small portion of the vast picturesque sandstone and vegetation features of West Arnhem Land Escarpment.
West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, May 1978.Aerial shot of extensive tropical rainforest types completely covering rugged coastal ranges south of Bloomfield River.
South of Bloomfield River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1960s.Aerial view looking north to tip of Cape York Peninsula, showing patterns of monsoon forest types with closed canopy among savanna.
Near Lockerby, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Aerial view of rainforest/monsoon forest patches among savanna south of Cooktown.
Near "Lion's Den" hotel south of Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1960s.Aerial view of rugged Mt Hemmant showing altitudinal transitions of rainforests from complex notophyll to microphyll vine forest, fern forest often with emergent Kauri Pines (Agathis spp.).
North of Daintree, Queensland, November 1976.An approaching thunderstorm in tropical savanna.
Mt Carbine to Cooktown road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1959.Annan River, water-worn granite boulders.
South of Cooktown, Queensland, ca. 1960.Another takeoff from Darwin showing bushfires (deliberately lit) in open forests.
Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Bamaga Aboriginal settlement clearing, showing boundaries of tall semideciduous mesophyll vine forest and grassy open forest (savanna).
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Bartle Frere (ca.1600 metres) with brooding clouds seen in distance from old Bruce Highway north of Innisfail.
Mount Bartle Frere, Queensland, May 1953.Beautiful, ineffable Australian Wet Tropics.
Dunk Island, Queensland, May 1953.Bloomfield River towards its mouth, i.e. tidal.
Near Ayton, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1962.Braided Channel Country near Longreach.
Near Longreaach, Queensland, June 1963.Bridge and long culvert crossing dry river bed, which floods during "wet" season.
Georgetown, Queensland, ca. 1970.Casual lagoon, sedge swamp, patch in distance of "Fresh-water Mangrove" (Barringtonia gracilis), plus birdlife, e.g. White Ibis, Magpie Geese.
Near Beatrice Hill, Darwin area, Northern Territory, June 1963.Characteristic "magnetic" termite mounds with pandanus and paper bark (Melaleuca) trees.
Laura-Coen Road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Cirque lake.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Cirque lake.
Overlooking Lake Seal, Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Cleared farm and grazing land with heath on poor soils in foreground.
Behind Apollo Bay, Victoria, Late 1970s.Cleared rainforest.
Kiama - Jamboree road, New South Wales, August 1955.Close-up of cemented alluvium/haematite scree with ubiquitous spinifex and scattered trees of Hakea and Snappy Gum.
Wittenoom, Western Australia, September 1973.Coastal corridor.
South of Cairns, Queensland, August 1969.Coastal corridor south of Cairns from top of Bellenden Ker (ca. 1600 metres).
Mt Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1959.Coastal corridor south of Cairns from top of Bellenden Ker (ca. 1600 metres).
Mt Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1959.Cooktown airstrip looking east, Endeavour River in foreground.
Cooktown, Queensland, 1960s.Distant view of Cunningham's Gap, Great Dividing Range.
Near Warwick, Queensland, 1959.Early morning view with much "ambiento" (expressive Italian for special mood of surroundings) from Hinchinbrook Channel eastwards to Hinchinbrook Island mountains shrouded in clouds and drizzle, mangroves in foreground.
Cardwell, Queensland, August 1972.East Alligator River mouth with wetlands.
East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Escarpment of Laura sandstone, showing vast tropical savanna with rainforest/monsoon forest in fire-protected gullies.
Laura area north of Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1960s.Extensive patches of tropical monsoonal forest (semideciduous mesophyll-notophyll vine forest) in Bamaga-Somerset area on latosols.
Near tip of Cape York, Queensland, May 1962.Extensive patches of tropical monsoonal forest (semideciduous mesophyll-notophyll vine forest) in Bamaga-Somerset area on latosols.
Near tip of Cape York, Queensland, May 1962.Extensive savanna (grassy low open woodland) varying in density according to soil type, with gallery forest along stream-lines in distance.
West of Rokeby near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Extensive savanna/grassy woodland with patches of deciduous vine thicket (monsoon rainforest) on fire-protected granites.
46 miles west of Mt Surprise on Hann Highway to Georgetown, Queensland, May 1970.Fire-tolerant deciduous vine thicket tree spp. interspersed with low sclerophyll grassy woodland on granite soils.
Peach Creek-Leo Creek near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Fire-tolerant deciduous vine thicket tree spp. interspersed with low sclerophyll grassy woodland on granite soils.
Peach Creek-Leo Creek near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Floor of valley with rainforest and sclerophyll forest on different soil types.
Mt Finnegan, south of Cooktown on Bloomfield road, Queensland, June 1969.Glacial valley.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Gloucester Island off Bowen, moribund Pandanus along the degraded beach.
Bowen, Queensland, May 1963.Gulf of Carpentaria extensive plains with grasslands, e.g. curly blue grass (Dichanthium), brown top (Eulalia), mitchell (Astrebla), scattered shrubs (Atalaya), all under a vast cumulus cloudscape.
Ca. 80 km south of Normanton, Carpentaria plains, Queensland, June 1970.Hammersley Range - Wittenoom area (National Park).
Wittenoom area, Western Australia, November 1973.Hinchinbrook Channel near Cardwell: picturesque and highly significant biogeographically; ecological integrity now problematic due to impacts of "ecotourist" developments.
Hinchinbrook Channel, Queensland, November 1971.Iron boiler - relic of old mining days.
Coen area, Queensland, 1954.Katherine Gorge.
Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, May 1978.Katherine Gorge.
Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, May 1978.Katherine Gorge.
Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, May 1978.Lake Barrine, Atherton Tableland: an old volcanic crater.
Near Atherton, Queensland, 1950s.Limestone karst country in Australia's wet/dry tropics.
Chillagoe, Queensland, September 1962.Longreach Township.
Longreach, Queensland, June 1963.Looking east from Lamond's Hill, through "dairying country" with weedy re-growth, to Bartle Frere.
Lamond's Hill, southeast Atherton Tableland, Queensland, 1959.Looking northwest from Beatrice Hill: subcoastal floodplain wetlands and savanna on dark grey heavy clays, mostly seasonally inundated.
Darwin area, Northern Territory, June 1963.Looking south from Dunk Island towards "DI family group" including Bedarra and Timana Islands.
Mission Beach area, Queensland, November 1969.Looking west from Portland Roads towards Tozer's Gap, with sand heath, and semi-deciduous monsoon forest type in foreground on hillslope.
West of Portland Roads, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Low grassy open woodland (Eucalyptus terminalis)/"tree savanna" on dark grey clays.
About 60 km. west of Gregory Downs on Lawn Hill Rd, Queensland, June 1970.Low open grassy woodland (tropical savanna) looking eastwards from Byerstown Range.
Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, November 1969.Low open woodland.
Near Wittenoom, Western Australia, November 1973.Mallee shrubs and spinifex grass in foreground, geologically ancient stony escarpments in background.
Top of Wittenoom Gorge, Western Australia, November 1973.Mountain landscape.
Mt. Gell, Tasmania, 1957.Mouth of Bloomfield River from the air, showing old gravel road skirting mountains to Cape Tribulation.
Bloomfield River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, July 1962.Mouth of Herbert River, showing mangrove forests and Paperbark (Melaleuca) wetlands.
Herbert River mouth, Queensland, 1960s.Mt Cook, granite hill covered by rainforest with low cloud.
Mt Cook, just south of Cooktown, Queensland, 1959.Mt Cook, granite hill covered by rainforest with low cloud.
Mt Cook, just south of Cooktown, Queensland, 1959.Natural vegetation pattern - rainforest in gullies and eucalyptus woodlands determined by wildfires.
Cook Highway south of Mossman, Queensland, September 1962.Natural waterhole in Normanby River, 3 miles from Kalpowar Station Homestead.
Normanby River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, ca. 1960.Northern tip of Cape York in Torres Strait.
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, ca. 1960.Patch of Hoop Pine-dominated rainforest (low microphyll vine forest) on continental island.
North Molle Island, Queensland, June 1965.Patch of Hoop Pine-dominated rainforest (low microphyll vine forest) on continental island.
North Molle Island, Queensland, June 1965.Patches of open grassy wooland (Eucalyptus confertiflora, E. pruinosa) with spinifex grass and termite mounds, scattered Melaleuca viridiflora on seasonally poorly drained solodic soils.
130 km west of Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Picturesque sultry and dreamy Bloomfield River fringed by tropical lowland rainforest.
Near Ayton, south of Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1962.Rainforest (semideciduous notophyll-microphyll vine forest) on granitic slopes with Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) visible on skyline.
McIlwraith Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Rainforest (semideciduous notophyll-microphyll vine forest) on granitic slopes with Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) visible on skyline.
McIlwraith Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Red Gorge and Joffie Creek.
Locality uncertain, Western Australia, November 1973.Remnant rainforest with Hoop Pine, grassland resulting from frequent burning and human impacts.
South end of South Molle Island, Queensland, June 1965.River landscape.
Locality uncertain, Tasmania, 1957.River landscape.
Pieman River at Corinna, Tasmania, 1957.Roadside scene in sheep grazing country.
Locality uncertain, South Australia, 1952.Sandstone escarpment with small-scale gorges and "permillennial" permanent springs, harbouring some monsoon forest elements protected from fires among sclerophyll vegetation.
West Arnhem Land Escarpment, viewed from the east, Northern Territory, May 1978.Second highest peak in coastal Far North Queensland, approx. one mile high, and conspicuous landmark west of Innisfail.
Mt Bartle Frere, Queensland, October 1962.Shallow water at low tide on coral reef.
Green Island, Queensland, August 1957.Shrubland with Eucalyptus brevifolia and spinifex on shales and siliceous sediments - Eucalyptus pruinosa, then grassland.
About 55 km. west of Gregory Downs on Lawn Hill road, Queensland, June 1970.Spinifex, snappy gum, bloodwood adorning lateritic mesa - Silurian shales.
Wittenoom area, Western Australia, November 1973.Spinifex, snappy gum, bloodwood adorning lateritic mesas.
Wittenoom area, Western Australia, November 1973.Subalpine landscape with dolerite peaks.
Mt. Projection, Tasmania, 1957.Subalpine stunted stony scrub.
Near summit of Mt. Mawson, Tasmania, 1957.Subalpine stunted stony scrub and herb field in foreground.
Looking south from Mt. Mawson, Tasmania, 1957.Subalpine tarn shelf.
Mt. Mawson National Park, Tasmania, 1957.Sweeping coastline ("Sunshine Coast") showing coloured sand cliffs with rare heavy mineral enrichment desired by sand-mining companies, subject of nature conservation campaigns.
Rainbow Beach, Cooloola, Queensland, May 1970.Sweeping view of tropical savanna (dry low open grassy woodland with Eucalyptus culleni, and ironbark; E. dichromophloia, a bloodwood) from Desailly Range.
Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, September 1972.Tall open forest in foreground, northern end of McIlwraith Range with rainforest/monsoon forest-eucalypt forest patterns.
East of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Tall open grassy forest (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) with small monsoon forest ("jungle") patches with closed dark green canopy.
Near East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.The Pilbara, from top of Wittenoom Gorge.
Wittenoom, Western Australia, November 1973.The famous "Barron River Falls".
Barron Falls near Kuranda, Queensland, November 1956.The first panoramic view, from "Cardwell Gap", of the ecologically genuine humid tropical landscape "travelling north" along the Bruce Highway.
Hinchinbrook Channel area, Queensland, January 1980.Tinaroo Dam.
Atherton Tableland, Queensland, 1960s.Tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) on mountain slopes.
Tully Gorge, Queensland, 1960s.Tropical lowland rainforest on coastal hills north of Mission Beach and Dunk Island, now developed as tourist mecca and Townsville's "Surfers Paradise" (without the surf inside the Barrier Reef).
Bingil Bay area, Queensland, May 1970.Tropical savanna/low grassy open woodland, on soils derived from metamorphic rocks of Hodgkinson Series (geological map).
View from Desailly Range, south of Cooktown, Queensland, July 1962.Tropical savanna/stunted grassy open woodland on hilly terrain looking westwards from Desailly Range.
Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, ca. 1960.Tropical wet lowlands from Kuranda Range road looking towards Cairns (behind Edgehill on right) and coastal ranges where Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve (sic) is located on the flats to the left.
Cairns, Queensland, March 1956.Tully Sugar Mill at edge of town during a typically rainy afternoon in one of the wettest places on the far north Queensland coastal plain.
Tully, Queensland, September 1972.Twin Falls Gorge with moist relatively fertile soil in "refugia", i.e. pockets or niches, harbouring fire-sensitive monsoon forest elements.
West Arnhem Land Escarpment, Northern Territory, May 1978.Twin Falls Gorge with moist relatively fertile soil in "refugia", i.e. pockets or niches, harbouring fire-sensitive monsoon forest elements.
West Arnhem Land Escarpment, Northern Territory, May 1978.Typical Atherton Tableland scene.
, Queensland, 1960s?.Typical arc of beach betweenrocky headlands, northern NSW.
Central coast, New South Wales, March 1971.Typical frosty picturesque winter landscape with forest remnants on Dorrigo Plateau.
Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, 1952?.Typical meandering course of slow-moving river on coastal plain with saline intertidal mangrove patches.
Near Townsville, Queensland, August 1969.Typical meandering course of slow-moving river on coastal plain with saline intertidal mangrove patches.
Near Townsville, Queensland, August 1969.Typical red and brown colourings of steep lateritic scenery.
Wittenoom, Western Australia, November 1973.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical sclerophyll woodland, Southwest Province, W.A. .
Southwest, Western Australia, Date uncertain.Typical semi-arid landscape of skeletal soils from acid metamorphic rocks in tropical northern interior.
South of Lawn Hill, north of Mt Isa, Queensland, June 1970.Typical spinifex "desert".
Cossack, Western Australia, November 1973.Typical spinifex "desert".
Cossack, Western Australia, November 1973.Typical subcoastal mountainous landscapes dominated by sclerophyll forests tolerant of wildfires with rainforest elements in special niches.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, 1960s.Typical subcoastal mountainous landscapes dominated by sclerophyll forests tolerant of wildfires with rainforest elements in special niches.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, 1960s.Typical subcoastal mountainous landscapes dominated by sclerophyll forests tolerant of wildfires with rainforest elements in special niches.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, 1960s.Typical subcoastal mountainous landscapes dominated by sclerophyll forests tolerant of wildfires with rainforest elements in special niches.
Barrington Tops area, New South Wales, 1960s.Typical subcoastal picturesque lagoon, with fringing red gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis), black swans, egrets.
Ten miles north of Kinrara Crater, southeast of Mt Garnet, Queensland, May 1970.Typical surf beach with tall foredune.
Teewah Sands, Cooloola, Queensland, 1968.Typical wetlands fringed by paper-barks and eucalypt woodlands, and with abundant bird life.
East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Typical wetlands fringed by paper-barks and eucalypt woodlands, and with abundant bird life.
East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.View "in between showers" from Kuranda Range road towards Cairns on the left, showing extensive clearing of tropical rainforests on coastal plains, now fertilised and supporting prosperous sugar cane industry.
Kuranda Range road, Queensland, 1959.View east from Kuranda Range road of sugar cane fields, Malbon Thompson Range in background.
Kuranda to Cairns road, Queensland, 1950s.View east from Kuranda Range road of sugarcane fields, Malbon Thompson Range in background and Green Island barely visible on horizon, and Cairns out of picture to right.
Kuranda to Cairns road, Queensland, 1950s.View east from summit of Mt Bellenden Ker of canelands of coastal corridor.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View east from summit of Mt Bellenden Ker of canelands of coastal corridor.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View from Maleny Plateau with cleared/regrowth rainforest on basaltic soils in foreground, and coastal plain dominated by Glasshouse Mountains which are scattered ancient trachytic "volcanic plugs" or "inselbergs". .
Maleny, Queensland, June 1980.View from cablecar of mountains looking south and east.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View from summit of Bellenden Ker of coastal corridor south of Cairns.
South of Cairns, Queensland, 1959.View of TV (Telstra) installation at summit of Mt Bellenden Ker.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View of TV (Telstra) installation at summit of Mt Bellenden Ker.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View of cable car near summit of Bellenden Ker.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View of tropical savanna (low grassy woodland), typically with Ironbark (Eucalyptus cullenii) and Bloodwood (Eucalyptus dichromophloia).
Desailly Range on Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, September 1972.View of tropical savanna (low grassy woodland), typically with Ironbark (Eucalyptus cullenii) and Bloodwood (Eucalyptus dichromophloia).
Desailly Range on Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, September 1972.View south from Red Bluff, Kuranda Range, with upper Barron River on right, and part of Cairns exurbs below Edgehill in background.
Near Kuranda, Queensland, November 1956.View west from Mt Bellenden Ker summit towards cleared Atherton Tableland in background.
Bellenden Ker, Queensland, 1972.View westwards across Atherton Tableland from summit of Mt Bellenden Ker in "elfin woodland".
Bellenden Ker summit near top of Cableway, Queensland, 1959.View westwards from Desailly Range.
Mareeba road, Queensland, November 1969.Wallaman Falls in dry season, range west of Ingham.
Near Ingham, Queensland, December 1968.Walsh's Pyramid, steep slopes and siliceous rocks with scanty vegetation, some of which are narrow endemics on similar isolated habitats farther south.
Near Gordonvale, south of Cairns, Queensland, 1960.Warm/cool temperate rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest on mountainous areas, central subcoastal NSW.
Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, 1952.Warm/cool temperate rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest on mountainous areas, central subcoastal NSW.
Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, 1952.West Dorrigo Plateau - winter time - Billy's Creek Sawmill nearing the end of its life in mostly cleared submontane ("warm temperate") rainforest, used for dairying.
Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955.Wetlands and tall open forest (Eucalyptus tetrodonta, E. miniata).
South of East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Wetlands and tall open forest (Eucalyptus tetrodonta, E. miniata).
South of East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Wetlands and tall open forest (Eucalyptus tetrodonta, E. miniata) pattern.
Near East Alligator River, Northern Territory, May 1978.Wittenoom Gorge.
Wittenoom, Western Australia, September 1973.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns
Typical narrow boundary separating moist subtropical "Hoop Pine scrub" from eucalypt open forest/woodland.
South of Mt Bauple, Queensland, 1964.Landscapes -- Cultural
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Kaimkillenbun, Queensland, 1980.World War I Memorial.
Kaimkillenbun, Queensland, 1980.Landscapes -- Disturbed Edge Ecotone
Mixed sclerophyll forest (Eucalyptus torelliana) community bordering disturbed and burnt notophyll vine forest.
Speewah Road, west of Kuranda, Queensland, December 1962.Landscapes -- Estuarine Plains -- Cape York Peninsula
Dendritic pattern typical of river mouths, especially west coastal Cape York Peninsula and Gulf of Carpentaria.
Normanby River, Princess Charlotte Bay, Queensland, November 1956.Landscapes -- Extensive Bulldust Plains -- Cape York Peninsula
"Magnetic" termite mounds and low scrubs.
Laura-Coen Road, Queensland, October 1962.Landscapes -- Forest Vegetation -- Cape York Peninsula
Medium woodland.
Coen Road, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Geological Feature -- Cape York Peninsula
Huge granitic rock pile (tors).
Mt. Simon, "Black Mountains", near Annan River, south of Cooktown, Queensland, 1959.Landscapes -- House Near Coen
Mt. White in background.
Coen, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Lagoon with Cattle Egret -- Cape York Peninsula
Beautiful nature cameo.
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns
A cameo of the history of rainforest clearing on coastal foothills of moist/wet Northeastern Australia.
South of Mt. Bauple, Southeast Queensland, September 1964.Cleared and bulldozed tropical lowland rainforest on basaltic krasnozem, ready for sugar cane planting.
Near Babinda, Queensland, mid 1950s.Cleared warm temperate rainforest (notophyll vine forest) with remnant Livistona australis palm, cleared for dairying.
Kiama to Jamboree road, New South Wales, August 1955.Foothills of coastal mountains, schists with steep slopes and poor soils, stony on spurs and ridges supporting eucalypt forest, with rainforest in fire-proof gullies and deeper richer soils.
South of Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.Grassy woodland typical of frequently burnt foothills on poor soils in moist tropics.
North of Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.Hilly with fairly steep basaltic soils previously covered by rainforest, cleared for dairying, now beef cattle.
Atherton to Ravenshoe road, Queensland, December 1963.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) plantations - very successful, but dairying not so on these typically poor granitic soils which once supported simpler rainforest types with timbers of high commercial value.
Eungella Range, west of Mackay, Queensland, June 1965.Lowland hills and slopes cleared of warm temperate/cool subtropical rainforest, on fertile basaltic krasnozems used for grazing.
Broughton Creek, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Lowland hills and slopes cleared of warm temperate/cool subtropical rainforest, on fertile basaltic krasnozems used for grazing.
Broughton Creek, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Pre-harvesting burning of sugar-cane as a potential ecological factor in nearby areas. .
South of Cairns, Queensland, July 1976.Remnant/regrowth notophyll vine forest (i.e. warm temperate/cool subtropical rainforest) on basaltic krasnozems cleared for dairying, etc.
Near Kiama, Illawarra District, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Slumping/terracing soil erosion.
Approx. 12 km north of Garbutt, Mackay-Proserpine Road, Queensland, November 1963.Tropical lowland rainforest (complex msophyll vine forest) on basaltic soils cleared for sugar-cane farming.
Happy Valley west of Babinda, Queensland, ca. 1956.Tropical wet lowlands and foothills cleared for sugarcane on flats and lower slopes.
Freshwater area, Cairns, Queensland, September 1972.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Cape York Peninsula
Ornamental trees (Poinciana - Delonix) and vines (Bougainvillea), and fruit trees (Mango - Mangifera).
Ebagoolah, 50 km from Coen, Queensland, 1954.Riverine habitat - different impacts.
Coen area, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Disturbance and Burning
Shrinking of rainforest patches in gullies as result of clearing and burning; now valuable real estate and a suburb of Cairns.
Brinsmead Road area, Freshwater, west of Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Fire
Annual fires on grassy slopes scorch edges of remnant rainforest.
Cairns, Queensland, October 1962.Attrition of rainforest formerly more widespread on now shallower leached soils on spurs and ridges, and slopes above cane farm. .
Cairns, Queensland, September 1972.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Seasonal Swamp -- Cape York Peninsula
Shallow seasonal lagoon (natural).
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Shallow seasonal lagoon.
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Wet Tropics
Abundant weedy regrowth, following clearing and history of dairying.
Crater (Mt. Hypipamee)-Ravenshoe Road, Queensland, October 1969.Abundant weedy regrowth, following clearing and history of dairying.
Crater (Mt. Hypipamee)-Ravenshoe Road, Queensland, October 1969.Advanced stage of degraded rainforest on Mount Mooraboul.
Cairns, Brinsmead Area, Queensland, October 1971.Bulldozer clearing for sugar cane.
El Arish-Mission Beach Road, Queensland, August 1972.Bulldozer clearing for sugar cane.
El Arish-Mission Beach Road, Queensland, August 1972.Bulldozer clearing for sugar cane.
El Arish-Mission Beach Road, Queensland, August 1972.Burning hillsides - a conservation issue.
Cairns, between Redlynch and the Intake, Queensland, October 1971.Burnt, overgrazed paddock invaded by weeds and rainforest pioneers.
Near Julatten on Rex Highway, Queensland, November 1971.Cleared eroding hillside - overgrazed.
Julatten area, Queensland, October 1971.Cleared eroding hillside - overgrazed.
Julatten area, Queensland, October 1971.Cleared regrowth which followed earlier clearing(s).
Near the Crater (Mt. Hypipamee) on Atherton-Ravenshoe Road, Queensland, November 1963.Cleared regrowth which followed earlier clearing(s).
Near the Crater (Mt. Hypipamee) on Atherton-Ravenshoe Road, Queensland, November 1963.Grassy spurs and gullies with or without rainforest on lower slopes.
Cairns foothills, Redlynch area, Queensland, October 1973.Typical pattern of sugar cane cultivation on coastal plain and rainforest on mountains.
South of Aloombah, Queensland, October 1962.Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Wet Tropics (Daintree)
Cleared and ringbarked complex mesophyll vine forest.
North of Hutchinson Creek, on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Cleared and ringbarked complex mesophyll vine forest.
North of Hutchinson Creek, on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Complex mesophyll rainforest cleared for cattle grazing.
North of Daintree River on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Complex mesophyll rainforest cleared for cattle grazing.
North of Daintree River on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Depleted mesophyll vine forest on left, mainly brown Salwood (Acacia aulacocarpa) regrowth following clearing on right.
North of Daintree on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Depleted mesophyll vine forest on right, mainly brown Salwood (Acacia aulacocarpa) regrowth following clearing on left.
North of Daintree on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland, October 1971.Landscapes -- Layered Open Woodland -- Cape York Peninsula
Grass trees and termite mounds.
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Low Heath on Sands -- Cape York Peninsula
Typical tropical heath with common Myrtaceae and Epacridaceae.
Silver Plains, Queensland, Nov. 1969.Landscapes -- Low Scrub and Grassy Plain -- Cape York Peninsula
"Magnetic" termite mounds.
Silver Plains, Queensland, Nov. 1969.Landscapes -- Low Scrub and Heath Plains -- Cape York Peninsula
Spectacular termite mound (cf. "stupa").
Capelands ("Heathlands"), Queensland, July 1975.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns
Highly impacted tropical basaltic hillside, typically sharp edge of rainforest, with secondary growth on protected slope.
Clump Pt., Mission Beach, Queensland, date uncertain.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Climate Change
Grassy balds as relicts of cooler wet climate.
Munro's Camp, Bunya Mountains, looking south, Queensland, 1959.Grassy balds as relicts of cooler wet climate.
Near "Big Falls", Bunya Mountains, Queensland, 1959.Grassy balds as relicts of cooler wet climate.
Near "Big Falls", Bunya Mountains, Queensland, date uncertain.Grassy balds as relicts of cooler wet climate.
West slope of Mt. Mowbullen, Bunya Mountains, Queensland, October 1970.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Edges
Edges of temperate rainforest and associated vegetation exposed to regular fires.
Near Waratah, Tasmania, February 1957.Edges of temperate rainforest and associated vegetation exposed to regular fires.
Near Waratah, Tasmania, February 1957.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Fire
Remnant depleted semi-deciduous mesophyll vine forest on granodiorite soils.
Thursday Island, Queensland, May 1962.Typical vegetation pattern on lower fertility soils, regularly burnt.
Between Granite and Watermelon Creeks, Bloomfield to China Camp Road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, June 1969.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Geological/topographic Control
Rainforest refugium - relatively fire-free gully with enriched, moister soil among savanna.
Mt. Fox to Ingham road, Queensland, December 1968.Rainforest refugium - relatively fire-free gully with enriched, moister soil among savanna.
Mt. Fox to Ingham road, Queensland, December 1968.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Rainforest Edges
Tropical rainforest edge with its distinctive community dominated by Cadagi (Eucalyptus torelliana).
Kuranda Range, Queensland, 1962.Landscapes -- Macro Vegetation Patterns -- Riverine/riparian rainforest ("gallery" forest)
Rainforest (gallery forest) on nutrient-rich alluvia, surrounded by savanna (grassy woodland) on lower fertility soils and frequently penetrated by wildfires.
Near Proserpine, Queensland, November 1956.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns
"Saw-cut" Gorge, West Arnhem Land Escarpment looking east, showing "refugium" with dense broad-leaved monsoon forest species surviving in moister and fire-protected habitat.
Kakadu, Northern Territory, mid-1970s."Saw-cut" Gorge, West Arnhem Land Escarpment looking east, showing "refugium" with dense broad-leaved monsoon forest species surviving in moister and fire-protected habitat.
Kakadu, Northern Territory, mid-1970s."Saw-cut" Gorge, West Arnhem Land Escarpment looking east, showing "refugium" with dense broad-leaved monsoon forest species surviving in moister and fire-protected habitat.
Kakadu, Northern Territory, mid-1970s.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Abrupt Edge of Deciduous Vine Forest
Edge of rainforest in tropical savanna with little penetration of surface fires.
Mt. Carbine to Cooktown Road, Queensland, 1959.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Abrupt Edge of Rainforest
Rainforest refugium - relatively fire-free gully with enriched, moister soil among savanna.
Speewah Road, near Kuranda, Queensland, December 1962.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Disjunct Emergent Tree Species
Disjunct Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) emergents in tropical rainforest.
Cannabullen Falls, lower Palmerston Highway, Queensland, September 1962.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Disjunct/Outlier Tree Species
Tropical Mangrove Palm outlier at its southern limit in Far North Queensland.
Mouth of Herbert River near Halifax, Queensland, November 1968.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Edge Fire
Abrupt rainforest edge in gully protected from fires in grassy woodland.
Mt. Fox to Ingham Road, Queensland, December 1968.Very limited penetration by wildfire of rainforest on bouldery outcrop, which is a "fire shadow".
Mt. Fox to Ingham Road, Queensland, December 1968.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Edges -- Fire
Abrupt boundary of rainforest in burnt woodland.
Brisbane Valley, Queensland, November 1966.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Fire-shadow Function of Boulders
Fragment of monsoon forest on granite boulders in savanna.
Mt. Carbine to Cooktown road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1959.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Gully Habitat
Fragmentary remnant of marginal upland rainforest on schists.
Kuranda Range, Queensland, December 1962.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Habitat
Open tropical deciduous vine thicket in "fire shadow" on sandstone boulders.
Black Rock, Hann Highway sixteen miles south of Lynd, Queensland, May 1970.Open tropical deciduous vine thicket in "fire shadow" on sandstone boulders.
Black Rock, Hann Highway sixteen miles south of Lynd, Queensland, May 1970.Open tropical deciduous vine thicket in "fire shadow" on sandstone boulders.
Black Rock, Hann Highway sixteen miles south of Lynd, Queensland, May 1970.Rare outlier of Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) in North Queensland.
Cannabullen Falls near the Palmerston Highway, Queensland, November 1962.Subtropical dry raingreen forest with scattered araucarian emergents.
Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Queensland, ca. 1960.Tropical monsoon forest elements in deep sheltered sandstone gullies (refugia) protected from wildfires.
Vertical aerial view of Twin Falls Gorge, West Arnhem Land Scarp, Northern Territory, 11978.Tropical monsoon forest elements in deep sheltered sandstone gullies (refugia) protected from wildfires.
Aerial view of Twin Falls Gorge, West Arnhem Land Scarp, Northern Territory, 11978.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Habitat -- Outlier
Relict rainforest "scrub turkey" mound in savanna.
Coastal area north of mouth of Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1976.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Niche
Typical well-lit edge with with many vines, epiphytes, and dense ground layer.
Daintree Area, Queensland, September 1972.landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Niche/"Refugium"
A small basaltic hill ("refugium") with fire-proof bouldery soils and moist subtropical rainforest with some relict species.
Glenugie peak north of Grafton, New South Wales, July 1955.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) surviving in niche adjacent to mangrove swamp on freely drained levee bordering She-Oak (Casuarina glauca) seasonal saline flats.
Brunswick River near Ballina, New South Wales, July 1955.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) surviving in niche adjacent to mangrove swamp on freely drained levee bordering She-Oak (Casuarina glauca) seasonal saline flats.
Brunswick River near Ballina, New South Wales, July 1955.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) surviving in niche adjacent to mangrove swamp on freely drained levee bordering She-Oak (Casuarina glauca) seasonal saline flats.
Brunswick River near Ballina, New South Wales, July 1955.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) surviving in niche adjacent to mangrove swamp on freely drained levee bordering She-Oak (Casuarina glauca) seasonal saline flats.
Brunswick River near Ballina, New South Wales, July 1955.Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) surviving in niche adjacent to mangrove swamp on freely drained levee bordering She-Oak (Casuarina glauca) seasonal saline flats.
Brunswick River near Ballina, New South Wales, July 1955.Southern relict of subtropical rainforest element plus additions of vagile species such as figs (Ficus spp.), on isolated warm fire-proof rocky outcrop.
Mt Dromedary near Eden, New South Wales, middle 1950s.Subcoastal plains looking northeast from Glenugie Peak, a small basaltic hill ("refugium") with fire-proof bouldery soils and moist subtropical rainforest with some relict species.
Glenugie peak north of Grafton, New South Wales, July 1955.Subcoastal plains looking northeast from Glenugie Peak, a small basaltic hill ("refugium") with fire-proof bouldery soils and moist subtropical rainforest with some relict species.
Glenugie peak north of Grafton, New South Wales, July 1955.Subcoastal plains looking northeast from Glenugie Peak, a small basaltic hill ("refugium") with fire-proof bouldery soils and moist subtropical rainforest with some relict species.
Glenugie peak north of Grafton, New South Wales, July 1955.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Niche/Habitat
Small patch of tropical moonsoon forest (sometimes termed "dry rainforest" following NSW forestry vocabulary) on fire-proof bouldery granitic outcrop.
Forty-six miles west of Mt Surprise, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1970.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Outlier/relict
Relict rainforest "scrub turkey mound" in savanna.
Coastal area north of mouth of Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1976.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Outliers
Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
West of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
46 miles west of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
West of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
West of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Outliers/relicts of monsoon forest on bouldery outcrops partly protected from wildfires in savanna.
Whitewater, east of Mt. Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Vine Tinospora smilacina (Menispermaceae) as relict life form in savanna.
46 miles west of Mt Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Vine Tinospora smilacina (Menispermaceae) as relict life form in savanna.
46 miles west of Mt Surprise, Queensland, May 1970.Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Rainforest Edges
Typical abrupt edge of rainforest which is correlated with cloudy moist summits and richer soils.
Western Kirrima Range, above Cardwell, Queensland, October 1968.Landscapes -- Natural Grassland -- North Queensland Wet Tropics
Grassland adjacent to rainforest with eucalyptus emergents.
King Ranch, Tully River Valley, Queensland, November 1963.Grassland adjacent to rainforest with eucalyptus emergents.
King Ranch, Tully River Valley, Queensland, November 1963.Landscapes -- Natural Patterns -- Cape York Peninsula
Freak natural pattern of circular area swept by hanging leafy branch of Paperbark (Melaleuca).
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Riverine/riparian habitat supporting rainforest.
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1960s.Landscapes -- Natural Patterns -- North Queensland Wet Tropics
Melaleuca dealbata and M. quinquinervia forest, Ischaemum grassland and rainforest with pandanus.
Eubenangee near Innisfail, Queensland, 1960s.Relatively sharp boundaries of closed rainforest and open woodland are correlated with wildfires.
McDowell Range, north of Daintree, Queensland, September 1972.Landscapes -- Natural Tropical Vegetation Patterns
Aerial shot of gallery forest which follows riverine alluvia.
Lockerbie, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Landscapes -- Natural Vegetation Pattern -- Cape York Peninsula
Surviving vine thicket in fire-protected rock outcrop in frequently burnt eucalyptus woodlands.
Near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Landscapes -- Paperbark Lagoon -- Cape York Peninsula
Paperbark (Melaleuca viridiflora); water lilies (Nymphaea).
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Permanent Lagoon -- Cape York Peninsula
Picturesque paperbarks and water lilies.
Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Typical moist creek-side (riparian) vegetation, e.g. Yellow Penda (Xanthostemon chrysanthus).
East of McIlwraith Range, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Rainforest Edge in Savanna
Edge of rainforest in tropical savanna with little penetration of surface fires.
Claudie River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1968.Landscapes -- Rainforest Edge/Ecotone
Abrupt transition from grassy open forest (Eucalyptus spp.) to tropical upland rainforest on schists.
Kuranda area, Queensland, September 1972.Narrow ecotone between rainforest with kauri pine and tall grassy open forest on granitic soils, regularly burnt.
Perimeter road, Tinaroo Dam, Atherton Tableland, Queensland, December 1962.Landscapes -- Refugia
Distant view of residual Deciduous Vine Thicket (tropical raingreen thicket/scrub) on hill - fire pattern with grassy woodland downslope.
Coliander Hill, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Landscapes -- Riverine Habitat -- Gulf of Carpentaria Region
Permanent river - Gregory River flows into the Gulf.
Gregory River, Queensland, June 1970.Landscapes -- Saline Flats -- Cape York Peninsula
Bogged truck.
Near Port Stewart, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Scenery
View of old fire impacts on forests.
Mt. Projection, Tasmania, February 1957.Landscapes -- Scenery -- Cape York Peninsula
A beautiful "billabong" in Australia's tropics.
Locality uncertain, Queensland, August 1972.Aerial view from Cape York west to Bamaga.
Cape York, Queensland, November 1956.Aerial view of Cooktown west from Grassy Hill.
Cooktown, Queensland, September 1959.Aerial view of Thursday Island looking south towards Cape York.
Thursday Island, Queensland, November 1956.Aerial view of Weipa Mission before bauxite mining.
Weipa, Queensland, Novemeber 1956.Approach to Horn Island airstrip looking north.
Horn Island, Queensland, November 1956.Araucaria cookii(?) planted behind Cooktown wharf.
Cooktown, Queensland, September 1959.Beach headland at low tide.
Near Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Casuarina equisetifolia and Pandanus tectorius with evergreen thickets.
Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Cattle in waterhole in a Cape York river.
Laura River(?), Queensland, 1969(?).Cessna on Jacky Jacky Airstrip.
Near Bamaga, Queensland, May 1962.Claudie River catchment.
Claudie River, Queensland, November 1956.Freshwater lakes in sand systems, Newcastle Bay.
Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Freshwater lakes in sand systems, Newcastle Bay.
Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Looking north from Captain Billy Landing.
Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Looking north from Portland Roads.
Portland Roads, Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Looking north from Portland Roads.
Portland Roads, Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Looking west along Cooktown main street.
Cooktown, Queensland, September 1959.North side of Endeavour River near Cooktown.
Cooktown, Queensland, November 1956.Overland Telegraph line near Morehead River.
Morehead River area, Queensland, 1950s.Portland Roads jetty and Edmund Kennedy monument.
Portland Roads, Iron Range, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Thursday Island township in 1956.
Thursday Island, Queensland, November 1956.Tropical savanna woodland landscape, Desailly Range.
Desailly Range between Mareeba and Lakeland Downs, Queensland, November 1969.Typical lagoon in Australia's wet/dry tropics.
Locality uncertain, Queensland, August 1972.Vegetation pattern relecting drainage patterns.
Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Wind sheared vine forest on laterised sandstone cliffs and wind-blown sand dunes.
Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Landscapes -- Scenery -- Queensland (North West)
Receding waterhole in bed of Gilbert River.
Between Georgetown and Croydon, Queensland, June 1970.Salt flats, a characteristic feature of the lower Gulf of Carpentaria.
Burketown, Queensland, June 1970.Salt flats, a characteristic feature of the lower Gulf of Carpentaria.
Burketown, Queensland, June 1970.Seasonal lagoon in early dry season.
78 miles west of Normanton, Queensland, June 1970.Landscapes -- Scenery -- Wet Tropics
Abattoir Swamp Conservation Park.
Mear Mount Molloy, Queensland, December 1965.Barron Falls in flood.
Barron Falls near Kuranda, Queensland, 1962?.Bloomfield River near Ayton with rainforest and mangroves.
Ayton, Queensland, July 1962.Coastal scene on Cook Highway.
Between Cairns and Mossman, Queensland, 1962.Dunk Island from Mission Beach.
Mission Beach, Queensland, 1960s.Eubenangee National Park with sugar cane cultivation along the boundary.
Eubenangee National Park north of Innisfail, Queensland, November 1965.Rare habitats preserved in Eubenangee National Park.
Eubenangee National Park north of Innisfail, Queensland, August 1964.Sugar cane cultivation with Eubenangee National Park in the background.
Eubenangee National Park north of Innisfail, Queensland, November 1965.Sugar cane growing adjacent to Eubenangee National Park.
Eubenangee National Park north of Innisfail, Queensland, August 1964.Sugar cane on basaltic soils with Eubenangee National Park in the background.
Eubenangee National Park north of Innisfail, Queensland, August 1964.Landscapes -- Subtropical Subcoastal Uplands
"Grass balds" characteristic of some subcoastal basaltic plateaus.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Landscapes -- Tropical Coastal Islands -- North Queensland
Dunk Island family group.
Dunk Island, Queensland, 1950s.Landscapes -- Tropical Mangrove-Fringed Creek -- East Cape York Peninsula
Tropical mangrove closed forest.
Breakfast Creek, Silver Plains, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Tropical Riverine -- Permanent Water Flow
Tall dense trees characteristic of this habitat.
Gregory River, S.E. of Lawn Hill, Queensland, July 1970.Landscapes -- Tropical Wet Lowlands
View from Cairns-Kuranda range lookout.
North of Cairns, Queensland, Sept. 1962.Landscapes -- Typical Sea Port -- Cape York Peninsula
Port Stewart.
Port Stewart, Queensland, 1954.Landscapes -- Vegetation Patterns
"Islands" of vine forests in a sea of savanna woodlands.
Near Bamaga, Queensland, May 1962."Natural" (Aboriginal-fire maintained before European settlement?) snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain on basaltic soil, fringed by eucalypt ecotone (E. saligna/grandis) and submontane/"warm temperate" rainforest.
Chapman's Plain, West Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955."Natural" (Aboriginal-fire maintained before European settlement?) snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain on basaltic soil, fringed by eucalypt ecotone (E. saligna/grandis) and submontane/"warm temperate" rainforest.
Chapman's Plain, West Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955."Natural" (Aboriginal-fire maintained before European settlement?) snow grass (Poa caespitosa) plain on basaltic soil, fringed by eucalypt ecotone (E. saligna/grandis) and submontane/"warm temperate" rainforest.
Chapman's Plain, West Dorrigo Plateau, New South Wales, July 1955.Abrupt boundary between rainforest and Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, Pandanus woodland.
Claudie River, Iron Range, Queensland, November 1968.Abrupt boundary of dense rainforest and grassy woodland, maintained by surface fires.
Near Bamaga, Cape York, Queensland, 1962.Abrupt boundary of dense rainforest and grassy woodland, maintained by surface fires.
Near Bamaga, Cape York, Queensland, 1962.Abrupt boundary of subtropical seasonal dry rainforest (vine thicket) in subcoastal area on fire-free stony and bouldery basaltic outcrop.
East of Bauhinia Downs, Queensland, October 1968.Abrupt edge of bunya pine rainforest on basaltic krasnozem below exposed crest (fire path) with snow grass etc on basaltic brown prairie soil.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Abrupt narrow boundary of cool subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest) with emergent Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and "grass bald".
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Abrupt narrow boundary of cool subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest) with emergent Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and "grass bald".
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Acid granitic mountain slopes with "wet sclerophyll" forest (Acacia, Casuarina, etc.) on ridges with skeletal soils, and rainforest in gullies and colluvial shelves lower down.
North of Tully in coastal lowland corridor, Queensland, January 1963.Aerial view of rainforest with eucalyptus woodland.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Aerial view of riverine/riparian rainforest (evergreen mesophyll vine forest) in tropical savanna (low open grassy woodland).
Coen River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Bartle Frere mountain showing rainforest zonation to ca. 1600 metres altitude above cleared sugarlands.
Bartle Frere, Queensland, November 1971.Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) patch on rhyolite in cool subtropical rainforest (on basalt), showing edaphic differentiation.
Whian Whian State Forest, New South Wales, Late 1950s.Bombax ceiba emergent over deciduous vine thicket with Dendrolobium umbellatum.
Merluna Downs Station near Piccaninny Creek, Queensland, October 1962.Booyong (Argyrodendron) is responsible for the flowering crowns, mainly on the lower slopes.
Bloomfield River area, Queensland, June 1969.Bruguiera gymnorhiza (Rhizophoraceae) mangrove community.
Coopers Creek between Daintree River and Cape Tribulation, Queensland, November 1965.Burnt grass and partly deciduous Poplar Gum (Eucalyptus platyphylla).
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Canopy of Melaleuca quinquinervia, Swamp Ella Bay.
Ella Bay near Innisfail, Queensland, November 1965.Catena, Manrika land system lateritic landscape.
89 miles west of Normanton, Queensland, 1970.Cedar Bay forests and coast.
Between Cooktown and Bloomfield, Queensland, 1962.Claudie River catchment vegetation pattern.
Claudie River, Queensland, November 1956.Cleared warm temperate rainforest on plateau (temporarily) fertile basaltic soils favoured for dairying.
Robertson Plateau, Illawarra District, New South Wales, August 1955.Close-up of dense remnant stand of Hoop Pine shown in Image 17-29.
South Molle Island near Proserpine, Queensland, June 1965.Common vegetation pattern with sclerophyll (evergreen scleromorphic) types replacing closed rainforest depending on soil type and wildfires.
Walsh's Pyramid near Gordonvale, Queensland, March 1956.Dead trees in canopy of evergreen rainforest.
Near Newcastle Bay, Lockerbie, Queensland, May 1962.Deciduous Gyrocarpus americanus and evergreen figs near Lawn Hill.
Lawn Hill, Queensland, August 1963.Deciduous Gyrocarpus americanus and evergreen figs near Lawn Hill.
Lawn Hill, Queensland, August 1963.Deciduous vine thicket in steeply incised gully with Eucalyptus on ridges.
Byerstown Range, Mareeba to Lakeland Downs road, Queensland, August 1962.Deciduous vine thicket on cracking clay soils.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous vine thicket on cracking clay soils.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous vine thicket on granite boulder outcrop near Coen.
East of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Deciduous vine thicket with dominant Dendrolobium umbellatum fringing gallery rainforest at Massey Creek.
Massey Creek, Silver Plains Station, Queensland, October 1962.Delta of Seymour and Herbert Rivers, as seen from Cardwell Gap.
North of Ingham, Queensland, November 1965.Dense remnant stand of Hoop Pine, with broad-leaf vine forest species of understorey mostly confined to deeper soils of gullies.
South Molle Island near Proserpine, Queensland, June 1965.Distant view of Mt Tyson mountainous area north of Tully, Far North Queensland.
Mt Tyson near Tully, Queensland, June 1973.Edaphic control of rainforest and sclerophyll vegetation.
Coomera Gorge, Queensland, October 1970.Edge of tropical/paratropical moist subcoastal rainforest on stony bouldery slope not penetrated by wildfires ("fire-shadow").
Mt Fox-Ingham Road, Queensland, December 1968.Edge of tropical/paratropical moist subcoastal rainforest on stony bouldery slope not penetrated by wildfires ("fire-shadow").
Mt Fox-Ingham Road, Queensland, December 1968.Erosion gullies with deciduous vine thicket, Cochlospermum macgillivraei in flowers and fruit.
South of Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Eucalyptus brassiana, Xanthostemon crenulatus and pandanus woodland.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Eucalyptus calorophylla overtopping deciduous vine thicket.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Eucalyptus clarksoniana, E. tetradonta over Livistonia muelleri and Acacia crassicarpa.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Eucalyptus confertiflora, E. brassiana woodland.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Extensive littoral zone with mangroves, etc.
Cairns Inlet, Queensland, November 1965.Freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia acutangula sub sp. acutangula) on lagoon, Livistona benthamii palm in background.
Lockhart River, east of Iron Range, Queensland, November 1978.Gallery rainforest from the air (Endeavour River, Cooktown?).
Cooktown, Queensland, May 1962.Grass balds on ridges and spurs ("fire paths"), with rainforest in more sheltered gullies, lower down on western windy slopes.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Grass balds on ridges and spurs ("fire paths"), with rainforest in more sheltered gullies, lower down on western windy slopes.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Grass balds on western slopes with cloudy moist cool subtropical rainforest confined to sheltered gullies.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Grassy woodland in foreground (Eucalyptus tessellaris), then strip of deciduous vine thicket ca. 20 metres wide, with tall riverine semideciduous mesophyll vine thicket fringed by Melaleuca leucadendra along Massey Creek.
Silver Plains, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Isolate of monsoon forest ("dry rainforest") element in "fire shadow".
Forty-four miles west of Gregory Downs on Lawn Hill Rd. , Queensland, June 1970.Isolate of monsoon forest ("dry rainforest") floristic element in "fire-shadow".
Four miles west of Mt. Surprise, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1970.Kinrara Crater (ca. 80 metres deep) with rainforest inside the crater rim.
Kinrara Crater, southwest of Ravenshoe, Queensland, May 1970.Limestone karst country in Australia's wet/dry tropics.
Chillagoe, Queensland, September 1962.Low altitude coastal basaltic hills and slopes cleared mainly for dairying.
Near Kiama, Illawarra District, New South Wales, ca. 1955.Mangrove Palms (Nypa fruticans) fringing lower reaches of Claudie River.
Lower Claudie River, Queensland, November 1969.Mangrove zonation, west Cape York near Weipa Mission.
Weipa, Queensland, November 1956.Margin of deciduous vine thicket, with Cochlospermum, Terminalia, Alphitonia.
Colcanda Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Micro habitat is critical for rainforest survival in dry times.
Mt Fox to Ingham road, Queensland, December 1968.Microtopography dictates vegetation pattern - dry season aspect.
Near Cooktown, Queensland, 1960s.Mosaic of cloudy moist cool subtropical rainforest with some Hoop Pine emergents (Araucaria cunninghamii) which replace Bunya Pine on drier sites.
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Mosaic on top slopes with different basaltic soils associated with grass balds among sclerophyll eucalypt grassy (Themeda) woodland and cool cloudy moist subtropical rainforest. .
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Mosaic on top slopes with different basaltic soils associated with grass balds among sclerophyll eucalypt grassy (Themeda) woodland and cool cloudy moist subtropical rainforest. .
Bunya Mountains, Queensland, June 1980.Natural fire pattern with tropical lowland rainforest cover except for lower spurs supporting grassy eucalypt woodland. .
The Intake area, Freshwater, Cairns, Queensland, May 1973.Natural pattern of rainforest and eucalypts with frequent fires.
Cook Highway south of Mossman, Queensland, September 1962.Natural vegetation pattern with rainforests on rich (eutrophic) basaltic soils, and woodland on low fertility (oligotrophic) soils from acid sedimentary rocks.
Border Ranges viewed from Beechmont, Southeast Queensland, Late 1950s.Old fire disturbance on edge of deciduous vine thicket.
Colcanda Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Open grassy woodland with box (Eucalyptus leptophleba) on quartz gravelly ridge; patch of leafless (relict?) deciduous vine thicket on black soil flat in foreground.
Laura to Coen road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1975.Patches of tropical monsoon forest (semideciduous mesophyll vine forest) and tall open eucalypt forest, with Lockerbie Homestead in cleared area.
Near tip of Cape York, Queensland, ca. 1960.Patterns of vine forests with medium grassy savanna woodlands.
Lockerbie near Bamaga, Queensland, May 1962.Poplar Box Eucalyptus platyphylla after fire in dry season.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Poplar Gum, Eucalyptus platyphylla with Themeda.
Lakeland Downs to Cooktown road, Queensland, 1962.Pristine vegetation pattern looking northwards from Cardwell Gap: coastal plain with delta of Herbert and Seymour Rivers, Hinchinbrook Island in background.
Hinchinbrook from Cardwell Gap, Queensland, September 1965.Rainforest - eucalypt forest/woodland resulting from frequent fires.
Western Kirrama Range, Queensland, October 1968.Remnants following human impacts and frequent burning of microphyll vine forest dominated by Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii var glauca).
South Molle Island near Proserpine, Queensland, June 1965.Sclerophyll woodland on poorer soils subject to wildfires and rainforest in gullies/lower slopes.
Mt Tyson, Queensland, June 1978.Semi-deciduous eucalypts, E. platyphylla and E. confertiflora (with stocking).
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Semi-deciduous vine thicket patches on granodiorite boulders (fire shadows) with sclerophyll evergreeneucalypt forest on poor soils from schists.
Cook Highway north of Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.Sharp boundaries between rainforest on basalt soils and eucalyptus forest on rhyolite soils.
Binna Burra, McPherson Range, Queensland, 1960s.Sugar cane cropping on alluvial flats with rainforest/sclerophyll forest near Tully.
Tully, Queensland, May 1968.Sugar cane farm with rainforests and sclerophyll forest backdrop.
West of Trinity Beach near Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.Sugar cane on coastal plain, grasslands and rainforest on foothills.
Kamerunga near Cairns, Queensland, 1962.Tea Tree, Melaleuca viridiflora and She Oak (Casuarina littoralis) with rainforest on hills beyond.
Silver Plains to Rocky River road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1956.Transformation of tropical lowland rainforest: clearing for cane cultivation, degraded Melaleuca-Pandanus swamp in foreground, logged and cycloned forest secondary forest.
Waugh's Pocket north of Innisfail, Queensland, August 1964.Tropical savanna (low grassy sclerophyll woodland), dry subcoastal north-eastern Australia.
Forty-six miles west of Mt Surprise, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1970.Tropical vine thicket isolate: fire-sensitive species on bouldery outcrop escape wildfires.
Near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, November 1969.Typical example of edaphic control, with rainforest restricted to higher fertility soils and sharp fire-controlled boundaries.
Blackbutt Range area, Queensland, Late 1950s.Typical fire-free vine thicket refuge amongst granite boulders.
Near Coen, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Typical isolate of tropical seasonal "dry rainforest"/monsoon forest on eutrophic soils and bouldery "fire shadow".
Near Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1959.Typical pattern of eucalypt woodland on frequently burnt ridges and sharp boundary with rainforest downslope, higher fertility soils.
Bloomfield River-China Camp road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1969.Typical pattern of eucalypt woodland on frequently burnt ridges and sharp boundary with rainforest downslope, higher fertility soils.
McDowall Ranges north of Daintree River, Queensland, 1969.Typical pattern of rainforest on deeper more fertile soils of basaltic origin, and in less fire-prone gullies, with open sclerophyll forest on shallow soils of exposed ridges and spurs which function as "fire paths".
Coomera Gorge, Queensland, October 1970.Typical pattern on lowland foothills in wet/moist Border Ranges region of Queensland/New South Wales, primarily determined by soil mineral nutrient availability of parent rocks.
Coomera Gorge area, Queensland, October 1970.Typical pattern on lowland foothills in wet/moist Border Ranges region of Queensland/New South Wales, primarily determined by soil mineral nutrient availability of parent rocks.
Coomera Gorge area, Queensland, October 1970.Typical sharp ecotone between Eucalypt woodland and rainforest at Bamaga.
Bamaga, Queensland, May 1962.Typical vegetation pattern on lateritised sandstones.
Laura to Lakefield road, Queensland, November 1969.Vegetation adjacent to salt water inlet near mouth of Boyds Creek, Hinchinbrook Channel.
Boyds Creek, Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, May 1972.Vegetation adjacent to salt water inlet ner mouth of Boyds Creek, Hinchinbrook Channel.
Boyds Creek, Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, May 1972.Vegetation pattern on windblown sands, northeast coast of Cape York Peninsula.
Road to Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Vegetation pattern relecting drainage patterns.
Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.View east towards Cape Flattery from Mt. Webb National Park.
Mt. Webb National Park, Starke, Queensland, August 1962.View from Desailly Range, Mareeba to Cooktown road, Eucalyptus woodlands.
Desailly Range, Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, 1962.Vine forest boundary with Livistona muelleri palms.
Lockerbie near Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Weed infested clearing with woody regrowth in melaleuca woodlands.
Starke Station, Queensland, August 1962.Wet lowland-foothill tropical rainforest on relatively low fertility soils from metamorphic rocks, residual in moister fire-protected gullies of the lower slopes.
The Intake area, Freshwater, Cairns, Queensland, May 1973.Wet lowland-foothill tropical rainforest on relatively low fertility soils from metamorphic rocks, residual in moister fire-protected gullies of the lower slopes.
The Intake area, Freshwater, Cairns, Queensland, May 1973.Wet lowland-foothill tropical rainforest on relatively low fertility soils from metamorphic rocks, residual in moister fire-protected gullies of the lower slopes.
The Intake area, Freshwater, Cairns, Queensland, May 1973.Yellow flowered Xanthosemon crenulatus in Eucalyptus woodland.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Landscapes -- Vegetation Patterns -- Fire
Tropical wet lowland rainforest remnants surviving in fire shadows in settled area. Originally sugar-cane farms on coastal plains, now invaded by housing as suburbs/exurbs of Cairns.
West Cairns, Queensland, December 1962.Landscapes -- Vegetation Patterns Resulting from Disturbance
Typical tropical wet lowland rainforest pattern correlated with lower fertility soils and natural disturbance factors.
Near Cairns, Queensland, 1956.Landscapes -- Vegetation Types
"Cyclone Scrub" on wet tropical lowland hills.
Clump Mountain near El Arish, Queensland, September 1959."Sclerophyll" canopy trees Acacia and Melaleuca over dense thicket.
Between Silver Plains and Rocky River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Abrupt edge (to right of track) of monsoon forest (semidecidous notophyll vine forest) growing near permanent spring and fringed by Hickory Wattle (Acacia aulacocarpa), Paper-bark (Melaleuca leucadendra).
Howard Springs near Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Banksia dentata, Grevillea glauca and G. pteridifolia and Asteromyrtus.
Martin Creek west of Lockhart River, Queensland, November 1976.Bark types - Canaarium australianum and Melaleuca nervosa in foreground, Erythrophloem in background.
Near Laura, Queensland, November 1969.Bloodwood (Eucalyptus setosa) and Iron Barks (E. melanophloia and E. shirleyi).
Hann Highway a few kilometres north of Lynd Junction, Queensland, 1970.Box woodland (Eucalyptus leptophlebia) with Paper Bark (Melaleuca viridiflora).
Near Cooktown, Queensland, 1960s.Box woodland - Eucalyptus leptophleba? .
30 miles west of Mt Surprise, Queensland, 1970.Brigalow (Acacia Harpophylla) over Wilga (Geigera parviflora).
42 miles south of Rolleston, Queensland, November 1963.Brigalow (Acacia Harpophylla) over Wilga (Geigera parviflora).
42 miles south of Rolleston, Queensland, November 1963.Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla).
Tara(?), Queensland, 1950s.Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) - Belah (Casuarina cristata).
North of Tara, Queensland, July 1969.Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) and Belah (Casuarina cristata) over Wilga (Geijera parviflora).
42 miles south of Rolleston, Queensland, November 1963.Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla), Bonewood (Macropteranthes leichhardtii) over low microphyll vineforest.
11 miles east of Rolleston, Queensland, November 1963.Burnt "cyclone scrub" near Babinda.
Cucania near Babinda, Queensland, 1958?.Canopy of Fan Palm forest (Licuala ramsayi), Tracey Type 3b.
Near Baratts Lagoon, Euramo south of Tully, Queensland, November 1965.Canopy of Feather Palm forest (Archontophoenix alexandrae), Tracey Type 3a.
Near R1014 El Arish, Queensland, November 1965.Characteristic bark of deciduous emergent tree Lagerstromia archerana.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Characteristic species in photograph are Banksia dentata, Hibbertia banksii, Casuarina littoralis and Grevillea pteridifolia.
Iron Range to Portland road, Queensland, November 1956.Coastal cliff exposed to persistent southeast winds.
Near Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Cooktown Ironwood (Erythrophloem chlorostachys) and Lysiphyllum in Box woodland.
20 miles west of Georgetown, Queensland, June 1970.Cypress Pine (Callitris intratropica) with emergent Bloodwood (Eucalyptus clarksoniana).
Roma to Injune Road, Queensland, May 1968.Dense stand of Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii var. Glauca) harbouring some moist subtropical rainforest understorey species in suitable sites (cliseral relicts?), confined to certain offshore "continental islands". .
South Molle Island off Proserpine, Queensland, June 1965.Disturbed forest edge.
Heathlands, northeast Cape York, Queensland, July 1975.Endemic emergent tree Syzygium argyropedicum (Myrtaceae) common throughout.
Between Silver Plains and Rocky River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Eucalyptus confertiflora, E. clarksoniana and Lophostemon suaveolens.
Bamaga, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Eucalyptus dallachyana and scattered Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtheca) on Mitchell Grass plain.
Just east of Leichhardt River near Normanton, Queensland, June 1970.Eucalyptus normantonensis(?), Common Mallee Box on hilltops on Mareeba to Cooktown road.
Near Palmerville, Queensland, 1960s.Eucalyptus tetrodonta in dry season.
Aurukun, Queensland, October 1962.Eucalyptus tetrodonta over Livistona muelleri.
North of Silver Plains Station, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Eucalyptus, Casuarina littoralis, Acacia and Grevillea.
Capelands, Queensland, July 1975.Evergreen vine forest with sclerophylls Acacia and Melaleuca.
Between Silver Plains Station and Rocky River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Example of vegetation catena (Donor Land System, CSIRO Tropical Land Research Surveys): shrubland/low forest (Melaleuca viridiflora); grassy woodland (Eucalyptus dichromophloia); then E. brevifolia on lateritic rise towards horizon.
West of Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Fan Palm Forest (Licuala ramsayi) showing forest structure (Tracey Type 3b).
El Arish, Mission Beach road, Queensland, August 1964.Feather Palm forest (Archonto Phoenix alexandrae), Tracey Type 3a.
Between Garradunga and Eubenangee, Queensland, August 1964.Flaky bark canopy tree (Acmena hemilampra) with epiphytic orchid (Bulbophyllum masdavelliaceum).
Area 2, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Flowering Corypha elata palms in gully with deciduous vine thicket.
Laura to Coen road, Queensland, October 1962.Flowering deciduous tree (Tetrameles nudiflora?) emergent.
Colcanda Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Forest Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis), Cainbable Range, Lamington National Park.
Lamington National Park, Queensland, 1960s.Forest structure exposed along track (Jiro Kikkawa Area 2).
Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Forest structure exposed on road verge (Jiro Kikkawa Area 3).
Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Forest structure exposed on road verge (Jiro Kikkawa Area 3).
Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Freshwater mangrove Barringtonia Acutangula spp. Acutangula.
Galbraith south of Staaten River crossing, Queensland, June 1970.Geoff Tracey amongst Grevillea decora, Petalostigma, Acacia and Eucalytpus normantonensis.
East of Croydon, Queensland, June 1970.Glaucous Eucalyptus pruinosa with Acacia (Sticky Leaves) and Aristida grassland.
16 miles west of Gregory Downs on Lawn Hill road, Queensland, June 1970.Grass Tree (Xanthorrea johnsonii) with Casuarina littoralis and melaleuca viridiflora.
Iron Range to Portland road, Queensland, November 1956.Grassy woodland (savanna) or parkland with Eucalyptus grandifolia with white stems in background.
South of Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Heathlands in foreground with evergreen vine thicket in background.
Silver Plains Station, Queensland, November 1969.Impact of "hot burn" wildfire in dry season.
North of Silver Plains Station, Queensland, November 1969.Impact of recent wildfire.
Near Laura, Queensland, May 1970.Interior of deciduous vine thicket.
Collander Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Interior of forest shown in Images 12-54 and 12-56.
Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Interior of forest shown in Images 12-54 and 12-56.
Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Interior of forest shown in Images 12-54 and 12-56.
Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Interior of mangrove community showing buttressing and various pneumatophore growth forms.
Herbert River, Hinchinbrook Channel, Queensland, 1968.Interior of semidecidous vine forest/deciduous vine thicket with savanna grassland with Ironbark in background.
Bonny Glen turnoff, Maitland Downs Station, Queensland, 1959.Interior of semideciduous notophyll vine forest with Drynaria quercifolia ground ferns.
Colcanda Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Interior of semideciduous notophyll vine forest with Drynaria quercifolia ground ferns.
Colcanda Hill, east of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Interior of well developed deciduous vine thicket-vine forest.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Ironbark (Eucalyptus fibrosa sub sp. fibrosa)? .
Kunwarra on Rockhampton to Marlborough road, Queensland, 1960s.Ironbark (Eucalyptus sideroxylon)? with flowering Acacia.
West of Warwick, Queensland, 1950s.Ironbark - Bloodwood over Themeda australis grassland.
Mareeba to Cooktown road, Queensland, September 1959.Ironbarks (Eucalyptus cullenii?) in deciduous vine thickets with Cochlospermum macgillivraei.
East of Coen, Queensland, October 1962.Kapok Tree (Bombax ceiba) with dry fruits of the seasonally growing vine Luffa cylindrica in vine thicket.
Merluna Downs Station, Queensland, October 1962.Large-leaved eucalyptus regenerating from lignotubers.
South of Darwin on Adelaide River road, Norther Territory, June 1963.Licuala ramsayi Fan Palm with Pandanus and Calamus in background.
Area 2, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Livistona Palm and Terminalia platyphylla amongst Paperbarks (Melaleuca fluviatilis).
34 miles south of Burketown, Queensland, June 1970.Magnetic termite mounds in burnt woodlands in dry season.
Silver Plains Station, east of Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Melaleuca acacioides emergent over Terminalia, Ventilago, Margaritaria, Diospyros, etc.
10 miles west of Croydon on Normanton road, Queensland, June 1970.Melaleuca argentea, Acacia torulosa and deciduous Cochlospermum.
"Bamboo", south of Archer River, Queensland, October 1962.Melaleuca dealbata forest in swampy areas near Tully, North Queensland.
East of Tully, Queensland, September 1959.Melaleuca leucadendron and Melaleuca dealbata in swale, Cowley Beach.
Cowley Beach between Tully and Innisfail, Queensland, May 1977.Melaleuca leucadendron and Melaleuca dealbata in swale, Cowley Beach.
Cowley Beach between Tully and Innisfail, Queensland, May 1977.Melaleuca leucadendron and Melaleuca dealbata in swale, Cowley Beach.
Cowley Beach between Tully and Innisfail, Queensland, November 1971.Melaleuca quinquinervia swamp.
Tully to Mission Beach road, Queensland, November 1971.Melaleuca quinquinervia swamp.
Tully to Mission Beach road, Queensland, November 1971.Melaleuca viridiflora and Acacia crassicarpa are common trees.
Between Massey Creek and Rocky River, Silver Plains, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Melaleuca viridiflora and Casuarina littoralis over Xanthorrhoea johnsonii and sedges.
Tully to Mission Beach road, Queensland, November 1971.Melaleuca viridiflora with scattered Bloodwood (Eucalyptus stockeri).
Laura to Coen road, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, October 1962.Molloy Box (Eucalyptus leptophleba) with Kangaroo Grass (Themeda australis).
Lakeland Downs to Cooktown road, Queensland, September 1959.Native waterlilies Nymphaea violacea(?) on lagoon.
Near Staaten River, Queensland, June 1970.New England Blackbutt (Eucalyptus andrewsii sub sp. campanulata).
Bulburin State Forest, Many Peaks Range, Queensland, 199.Open grassy shrubland and termite mounds in savanna, e.g. Cochlospermum, Terminalia - monsoon forest elements (relicts or remnants) on calcareous clay with scattered lateritic pebbles.
130 km west of Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, June 1970.Open shrubland with with some evergreen vine thicket species on stony hill with quartzites.
20 km south of Lawn Hill, Queensland, June 1970.Palms and pandanus on disturbed rainforest edge.
Area 2, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Pandanus and deciduous vine thicket species under eucalypts.
Peach Creek to Leo Creek near Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Paperbark forest (Melaleuca viridiflora).
Old Lockhart Road, Iron Range area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1976.Paperbark low open forest (Melaleuca viridiflora) recently burnt.
Silver Plains Station, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Paperbark swamp (Tracey Type 15a).
Between Mossman and Port Douglas, Queensland, November 1965.Partly deciduous freshwater mangrove (Barringtonia acutangula subsp. acutangula).
Galbraith south of Staaten River crossing, Queensland, June 1970.Patch of Pandanus open shrubland in savanna/grassland.
West of Cape Upstart, Queensland, October 1968.Patch of vine thicket Lysiphyllum, Atalaya in heavily grazed box woodland.
Near Thorntonia, north of Camooweal, Queensland, June 1970.Permanent creek with dark organic stained water in acid sands.
Near Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Poplar Box (Eucalyptus populnea) cattle grazing country.
Just north of Injune, Queensland, November 1963.Poplar Box (Eucalyptus populnea) cattle grazing country.
Just north of Injune, Queensland, November 1963.Poplar Box (Eucalyptus populnea) cattle grazing country.
Just north of Injune, Queensland, November 1963.Poplar Gum (Eucalyptus platyphylla).
Butchers Hill Station, Cooktown road, Queensland, August 1962.Professor Jiro Kikkawa photographing flowering acacia.
Area 1, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Rainforest flora on Black Mountain near Cooktown.
Mt Simon-Black Mountain, southwest of Cooktown, Queensland, 1959.Recently burnt Paperbark (Melaleuca viridiflora) with "magnetic" termite mound.
North of Silver Plains Station, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.River Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) stand in wet season.
South of Miriam Vale, Queensland, November 1965.River Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis) stand in wet season.
South of Miriam Vale, Queensland, November 1965.Road clearing shows forest structure (Jiro Kikkawa Area 6).
Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Sand blowouts and windsheared canopy indicate persistent wind impact.
Near Captain Billy Landing, Heathlands, Queensland, July 1975.Semideciduous notophyll vine forest with Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) on granitic upper slopes and ridges.
McIlwraith Range near Coen, Queensland, October 1969.She Oaks (Casuarina cunninghamiana) and Pandanus delestrangii with Paperbark Melaleuca fluviatilis.
Beames Brook, 18 miles south of Burketown, Queensland, June 1970.Silver Plains to Massey Creek road through evergreen vine thicket.
Silver Plains Station, Queensland, November 1969.Smooth windshered canopy and sand blowouts characterise these habitats.
Newcastle Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1962.Snappy Gum, Eucalyptus brevifolia, with prostrate Acacia spp.
86 miles west of Normanton, Queensland, 1970.Stunted layered woodland with Eucalyptus papuana (one of the "Ghost Gums") with white stems ca. 9 metres, with Melaleuca nervosa(?), Planchonia careya, Syzygium bleeseri, Pandanus, Acacia.
Elizabeth River south of Darwin, Northern Territory, June 1963.Swamp vegetation, Eubenangee National Park.
Eubenangee National Park, north of Innisfail, Queensland, 1960s.Syzygium suborbiculare and other vine thicket species under eucalypts.
South of Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Tea Tree Melaleuca viridiflora overtops deciduous Petalostigma banksii.
Between Morehead and Hann Rivers, Queensland, November 1969.Terminalia oblongata sub sp. Volucris emergent over Dendrolobium thicket.
Laura to Coen road near Fairview, Queensland, October 1962.Typical dry season landscape.
Peach Creek - Leo Creek near Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Typical dry season landscape.
Peach Creek - Leo Creek near Coen, Queensland, November 1969.Typical fringing forest on permanent stream (Massey Creek).
Massey Creek, Silver Plains Station, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1962.Typical melaleuca community near Aurukun.
Aurukun near Weipa, Queensland, October 1962.Typical soil profile of lateritic krasnozem supporting vine forests in Southeast Queensland.
Yarraman, Queensland, July 1955.View east from lateritic sandstone over windblown sand dunes.
Road to Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.View east from lateritic sandstone over windblown sand dunes.
Road to Captain Billy Landing, Queensland, July 1975.Wet season, Melaleuca viridiflora with magnetic termite mounds.
Silver Plains Station, Queensland, 1954.Zonation patterns in mangrove trees.
Jacky Jacky Creek, south of Somerset, Queensland, 1962.Landscapes -- Vegetation/Land Use Patterns
Unstable pattern of rainforest on coastal foothills tending to be replaced by grassy woodland and open grassland.
West of Trinity Beach near Cairns, Queensland, September 1962.