Stage Number: MBSH.03.01.29
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: West End-South Brisbane-North Wolloongabba
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: Area of St Laurence and Somerville sports ovals, behind Somerville House, end of Graham Street, Woolloongabba
Latitude & Longitude: -27.48408056,153.02429167
Time Link: 1871
Map Link: 1879
Image Time Point: 1879
Aboriginal crayfishing/yabbying site, waterhole and camp – one of the sub-camps of Woolloongabba. A post on Vulture Street close to Somerville House above here once marked the policing boundary across which Aboriginals were expected to exit after dusk during the 1860s-1910s.
To be Updated
QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 4 chains to the inch. Section 1, 3, 8, 15-18, 20-3, 29-31, 35-40, 42, 44-8, 52, being the Victoria Bridge Lands, South Brisbane, County of Stanley. 4 chains to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane.. 620301
