Video gallery
View videos featuring aspects of the surveying and mapping history of Queensland. Narrated by Bill Kitson, founder and original curator of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, the videos capture social history and include maps, plans, photographs, artefacts, biographies and documents.
Why a Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying
Fifth Field Survey Company
Clocks and standard time in Queensland
Rescue from Rattlesnake Island
Surveyor Hull and artwork
Surveyors boxes
The calculator collection
Jondaryan base line
Land ballots
'We of the survey' illustrated poem
Photography taken by the department
Instruments for measuring angles
Instruments for measuring distances
Camera for taking aerial photography
Carnegie Institute of Washington sandstone block
Mile post from Queensland NSW Border
Seal of the Registrar of Titles
Instruments for measuring heights
Drafting instruments
The standard yard
Related links
- View images of instruments and equipment used to survey and map Queensland.