cameldriver
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Camel team coming over to Birdsville led by the camel driver, ca. 1926 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Training a camel to lead in Birdsville, Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Horse and camel team, Cloncurry, ca. 1904 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Petti Khan's camel at Canobie Station, ca. 1895 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Unloading the camel team in front of the store at Boulia, ca. 1895 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Camel train of the Afghan hawker, Amedulah Khan, ca. 1901 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Woman and child on a camel in the Hughenden district from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Camel driver and a caravan of camels returning home from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Group of Afghani men in national dress from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Afghan Emeute at Richmond, ca. 1907 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Afghan cameleer escorts Mrs Walter Lawrence Silver on the wallaby track, ca. 1904 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
Afghan Emeute at Richmond, ca. 1907 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2013
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Camel train of the Afghan hawker, Amedulah Khan, ca. 1901
- jamica1 said:
Camels and their Afghan drivers loaded with goods for the treck between Bourke and Cunnamulla, ca. 1895
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patricio jofre said:
muy buenas
Training a camel to lead in Birdsville, Queensland
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Vesna Verencevic said:
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/...