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27 photos and 4 illustrations tagged tropical, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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1895

2024

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Cemetery at Yarrabah ca 1928 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2025
First prize won by the Mackay - Charters Towers District Exhibit, Royal National Association Exhibition in Brisbane, 1934 from State Library of Queensland uploaded August 2025
Cathedral Rock from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2024
Ayer's Ague Cure: Is Warranted To Cure Fever & Ague and All Malarial Disorders from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2023
Bush House at the Townsville Botanical Gardens, ca.1900 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2023
Tropical Fish, aquarium series, 1 April 1940, PIX magazine from State Library of New South Wales uploaded May 2021
View of Anzac Park in Cairns ca 1930 from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2021
Queensland display at the British Empire Exhibition in London 1924 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2020
On the beach at Palm Island in North Queensland, ca. 1938 from State Library of Queensland uploaded May 2020
Pentecost Island in the Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland coast from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2018
On the beach at Hayman Island off the coast of Queensland, ca. 1940 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2018
Newry Island near Mackay, Queensland, 1939 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2018
Soldiers on the beach on Green Island, Cairns, 1943 from State Library of Queensland uploaded July 2018
British Library digitised image from page 104 of "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain O. Stanley, ... during the years 1846-50. ... To which is added the account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploratio from British Library uploaded July 2018
Glenart 1903. Tower flying Union Jack set in tropical style gardens. Pathway leading towards ivy covered gables. from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2018

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Glenart 1903. Tower flying Union Jack set in tropical style gardens. Pathway leading towards ivy covered gables.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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Ilia Alshanetsky said:
Preciosa Skyline
B-59 said:
This seems to be a tower in the Glenart gardens, which is still standing, s. photo in www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=images&... (additional images to www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...)
B-59 said:
No streetview, but ist likely here: www.google.com/maps/place/52%C2%B048'36.2%22N+6%C2%B011'4... maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,721696,674758,11,9
John Spooner said:
Congratulations to Mr F R Brown, foreman gardener at Glenart in 1903 for:
(a) cultivating such a beautiful garden and
(b) passing his exams

(Wicklow People - Saturday 31 January 1903)
beachcomber australia said:
Interesting Red Herring... HMHS Glenart Castle, a British WW1 hospital ship was torpedoed 100 years ago, on 26 February 1918. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Glenart_Castle

Christmas in Vietnam, 1967

from Australian War Memorial collection

Eric Hunt said:
Someone forgot to turn on tagging!
Terrific Lake said:
great shot
Gary said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vietnam/Korea - Australia & Allies 1960s/1970s, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Franks Photos! said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called TOUR OF DUTY, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
darryl jones said:
great shot. Brings back memories, 2RAR, 67-8.

Studying the Cabbage Tree palms in Carnarvon Gorge August 1938

from State Library of Queensland

John Nielsen said:
such a great window into the past!
Vesna Verencevic said:
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