Training a camel to lead in Birdsville, Queensland
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Where: Queensland, Diamantina, Australia
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When: 01 January 1910
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Location: Birdsville, Queensland.
Description: At least 15,000 camels with their handlers are estimated to have come to Australia between 1870 and 1900. Camels remained an important mode of transport in the outback until the 1930s.
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Location: Birdsville, Queensland.
Description: At least 15,000 camels with their handlers are estimated to have come to Australia between 1870 and 1900. Camels remained an important mode of transport in the outback until the 1930s.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/108835
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland
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Today, Central Australia is home to the world’s largest herd of wild camels. This population is a legacy of the challenges of transporting goods across Australia’s arid inland during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In 1860, three cameleers and approximately twenty camels sailed from Karachi to Melbourne to accompany the Burke and Wills expedition. Between 1870 – 1920, entrepreneurs, realising that camels could cope with conditions inhospitable to horses and bullocks, imported approximately 20,000 camels, accompanied by 2000 – 4000 cameleers. These camels were swiftly put to work and, from the 1870s to the 1940s, camel trains carried goods between towns, homesteads, mining camps, and railheads. Sources: queenslandhistory.org/2020/01/camel-trains-in-queensland/...