- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The town is right on the Queensland border, and an interprovincial rabbit-proof fence—with rabbits on both sides of it—runs across the main street.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5881
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:20 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:20
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- They say that a past Ministry commenced to clear the road from Bourke, under the impression that Hungerford was an important place, and went on, with the blindness peculiar to governments, till they got to within two miles of the town.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5886
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:23 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:23
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- One of the hungriest cleared roads in New South Wales runs to within a couple of miles of Hungerford, and stops there; then you strike through the scrub to the town.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5882
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:21 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:21
Details
Latitude-30.0888375 Longitude145.9377648
Description
Extended Data
- context
- They say that a past Ministry commenced to clear the road from Bourke, under the impression that Hungerford was an important place, and went on, with the blindness peculiar to governments, till they got to within two miles of the town.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5883
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:21 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:21
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- One of the hungriest cleared roads in New South Wales runs to within a couple of miles of Hungerford, and stops there; then you strike through the scrub to the town.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc587f
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:20 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:20
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- However, we found Hungerford and camped there for a day.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5880
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:20 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:20
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Hungerford consists of two houses and a humpy in New South Wales, and five houses in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588b
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:25 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:25
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Hungerford consists of two houses and a humpy in New South Wales, and five houses in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5884
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:22 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:22
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Hungerford consists of two houses and a humpy in New South Wales, and five houses in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5885
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:22 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:22
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The post office is in New South Wales, and the police-barracks in Bananaland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5887
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:23 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:23
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Characteristically enough, both the pubs are in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5888
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:24 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:24
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The police cannot do anything if there’s a row going on across the street in New South Wales, except to send to Brisbane and have an extradition warrant applied for; and they don’t do much if there’s a row in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588f
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:27 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:27
- Placename
- Brisbane
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-27.4704528 Longitude153.0260341
Description
Extended Data
- context
- One part of the town swears at Brisbane when things go wrong, and the other part curses Sydney.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588c
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:26 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:26
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The police cannot do anything if there’s a row going on across the street in New South Wales, except to send to Brisbane and have an extradition warrant applied for; and they don’t do much if there’s a row in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5889
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:24 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:24
- Placename
- Brisbane
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-27.4704528 Longitude153.0260341
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The police cannot do anything if there’s a row going on across the street in New South Wales, except to send to Brisbane and have an extradition warrant applied for; and they don’t do much if there’s a row in Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588a
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:24 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:24
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The country looks just as bad for a hundred miles round Hungerford, and beyond that it gets worse—a blasted, barren wilderness that doesn’t even howl.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588e
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:26 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:26
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- We camped on the Queensland side of the fence, and after tea had a yarn with an old man who was minding a mixed flock of goats and sheep; and we asked him whether he thought Queensland was better than New South Wales, or the other way about.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5897
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:30 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:30
Details
Latitude-27.996939 Longitude145.8468053
Description
Extended Data
- context
- The town is supposed to be situated on the banks of a river called the Paroo, but we saw no water there, except what passed for it in a tank.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc588d
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:26 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:26
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- We saw one of the storekeepers give a dead-beat swagman five shillings’ worth of rations to take him on into Queensland.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5890
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:27 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:27
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- I believe that Bourke and Wills found Hungerford, and it’s a pity they did; but, if I ever stand by the graves of the men who first travelled through this country, when there were neither roads nor stations, nor tanks, nor bores, nor pubs, I’ll—I’ll take my hat off.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5891
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:27 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:27
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- We camped on the Queensland side of the fence, and after tea had a yarn with an old man who was minding a mixed flock of goats and sheep; and we asked him whether he thought Queensland was better than New South Wales, or the other way about.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5893
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:29 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:29
- Placename
- New south wales
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-31.2532183 Longitude146.921099
Description
Extended Data
- context
- At last, with the bored air of a man who has gone through the same performance too often before, he stepped deliberately up to the fence and spat over it into New South Wales.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5894
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:29 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:29
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Then a trooper in Queensland uniform came along and asked us what the trouble was about, and where we came from and were going, and where we camped.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5895
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:29 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:29
- Placename
- Hungerford
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-28.6873701 Longitude144.7561538
Description
Extended Data
- context
- Next morning we rolled up our swags and left Hungerford to the north-west.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5896
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:30 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:30
- Placename
- Queensland
- Type
- Text
Details
Latitude-22.575197 Longitude144.0847926
Description
Extended Data
- context
- We camped on the Queensland side of the fence, and after tea had a yarn with an old man who was minding a mixed flock of goats and sheep; and we asked him whether he thought Queensland was better than New South Wales, or the other way about.
Sources
TLCMap IDtc5892
Created At2024-11-30 18:48:28 Updated At2024-11-30 18:48:28
