Welcome to the
Queensland Historical Atlas (QHAtlas) project

To mark Queensland’s sesquicentenary of self-government in 2009, two of the State’s major cultural research institutions have come together to develop and present a new conception of Queensland’s cultural and environmental history. The QHAtlas project will synthesise cross-disciplinary approaches in history, environmental studies, archaeology, anthropology and cultural geography to explore ‘themes in the landscape’ as a means to comprehend the diverse cultural and environmental histories of the State of Queensland.

QHAtlas will complement existing historical, geographic and environmental research by examining a set of themes that encapsulate in vivid human terms the interplay between people and place, between cultures and landscapes, between outlooks and physical settings that is a basic continuity in the human occupation of the State. It will re-comprehend Queensland’s history on a grand scale – spanning historical eras, cultural perspectives and diverse human activities.

This research was supported under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage funding scheme (project number LP0775186).