River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)
Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 4
Latitude:
-23.53
Longitude:
150.87
GeoNames ID:
2 166 580
Geofield:
POINT (150.86667 -23.53333)
Fitzroy River
"Nature, Progress and the 'Disorderly' Fitzroy: The Vain Quest for Queensland's 'Noblest Navigable River', 1865–1965"
This article focuses on attempts, some experimental but all ultimately unsuccessful, to render Queensland’s Fitzroy River suitable for large-scale shipping by constructing ‘training’ walls and dredging intensively.