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Meteorological observatory on Wickham Terrace Brisbane ca. 1900

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Something very interesting! Rescue of Historical Ship Logbooks Clement Wragge (1892 – 1903) • Clement Wragge, known for his "mop of flaming red hair and explosive temper to match”, was the first person to produce weather forecasts in Australia. • 1887-1902: He was appointed Government Meteorologist in Queensland. • By 1893 Wragge had established 97 meteorological stations and 398 rain gauge stations throughout Queensland and in the Pacific region. • He was the first person to introduce the naming of storms and cyclones. His original idea was to name them after the names of ‘annoying’ politicians. • Wragge collected extracts of ship logbooks which have been archived at the National Archives in Brisbane. • I photographed more than 8,000 extracts which cover the period from 1892-1903 and most of them have been digitised as part of the Weather Detective project. Source: ensembles-eu.metoffice.gov.uk/C3S-DR/pages/workshop_mater...

View of Brisbane from the Old Windmill Observatory in Brisbane

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Brisbane’s oldest building has many facets to its sometimes dark and brutal history - built by convicts in the late 1820s, it is not just the longest surviving convict building but also the oldest windmill in existence in Australia. Source: www.mustdobrisbane.com/visitor-info-arts-culture-history/...

[Moon Drawing] Moon. From drawing by Jycho Brake., 1033527

from Auckland Museum Commons