palm

such a great window into the past!

Livistona nitida, the Carnarvon Gorge cabbage palm,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is endemic to Queensland in Australia.[ Livistona nitida has a cream to yellow flowers, flowers from September to December, and fruits from November to March.[2] It is a functionally dioecious palm, growing to 35 m, with raised leaf scars.[2] The petioles of dead leaves persist for the first meter, but they shed higher up the stem.[2] The inflorescences are unbranched at the base, and extend beyond the limit of the crown, branching up to 4 orders.[2] The flowers are solitary or in clusters of 2-5 and have triangular sepals.[2] The fruit is globose (diameter 13–20 mm) and a glossy black.[2] It is found In the catchments of the Dawson, Comet and Burnett Rivers, and Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland.[2] It is abundant on the margins of streams and in flood plains but is also found near sandstone cliffs and gorges.[2 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livistona_nitida

Lindeman Island Its natural beauty and breathtaking Whitsunday scenery make Lindeman Island one of the most spectacular tropical islands in Australia. Complemented by temperate days and nights, Lindeman Island was one of the first Whitsunday islands to be developed. The resort on Lindeman Island is no longer operational, however, a new island owner is currently planning the build a luxury resort with an estimated completion date of 2022. Aboriginal people refer to Lindeman Island as Yara-Kimba, the place of snapper-bream fish. Consisting of mostly National Park, Lindeman Island is a bushwalking paradise. More than 20 kilometres of bushwalking tracks allow visitors to stroll through the aptly named Butterfly Valley, or climb Mt Oldfield, which rewards the climb with stunning views across Hamilton and Whitsunday Island. Lindeman Island has seven beautiful beaches, with Gap Beach being favoured for snorkelling, with colourful reefs and abundant marine life near the shore. Dolphins can often be spotted from the shore throughout the year and Humpback whales between July to November. Birdwatchers will delight in more than 90 bird species that inhabit or visit the island. Source: www.queensland.com/au/en/places-to-see/destination-inform...

The Australasian Supplement published a long report from a ‘Special Correspondent’ on the Universal Exhibition in Vienna. From the perspective of Vienna, and through Daintree’s ‘charming coloured photographs’, they were able to see Queensland as a whole: They are so pretty and so instructive, without seeming to be so, that few people can pass them by without going steadily through them. They are of high interest to the geologist, while at the same time the person who is not a geologist will be just as much interested; for in addition to the regular sequence of views, commencing with the alluvial districts and the sugar plantations, and working up to the gold formations, there is so much life introduced into them that one feels that one is looking at Queensland through a camera.55 Richard Daintree was not only a frontier photographer, and he was not only a metropolitan photographer – his work was the product of both spaces as they interacted within the new space of modern spectacle. The images were exposed right at the outer edge of imperial expansion, but they were produced into meaning right at its center, integrating the very latest in display technologies within the most sophisticated of scientific systems. In many ways, therefore, they anticipate the future role of ‘the photograph’ over the 150 years that followed when, within the increasingly sophisticated exhibition, publication, and, eventually, online digital spaces, photographs increasingly became retrievable polysemic units within a mobile dataset, and they were increasingly experienced as retinal events aggregated together into a synthetic optical field. Source: Frontier and Metropole, Science and Colonisation: The Systematic Exhibitions of Richard Daintree Martyn Jolly, published online 2020 doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2020.1788233