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Training a camel to lead in Birdsville, Queensland

from State Library of Queensland

  • 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/...

Camel train of the Afghan hawker, Amedulah Khan, ca. 1901

from State Library of Queensland

  • jamica1 said:
    I like "General Hawker".

Camels and their Afghan drivers loaded with goods for the treck between Bourke and Cunnamulla, ca. 1895

from State Library of Queensland

  • patricio jofre said:
    muy buenas