Stage Number: MBSH.02.02.55
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Fairfield-Annerley (formerly pilot)
Epoch: Early 19th Century
Street Address: Fairfield Railway Station, possibly extending towards Brisbane River
Latitude & Longitude: -27.51011111,153.02744444
Time Link: 1823
Map Link: 1845
Image Time Point: 1845
An Aboriginal Camp occupied into early Colonial times. This seems to have marked the southern end of the’Bloggo Scrub’ – an area of wetlands and rainforests between here and Dutton Park.
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 131.
SLQ. First Survey of Crown Lands in the Moreton Bay District, 1842, by Surveyor Henry Wade.Brisbane, 1842. RBM 841.16 1842 00013 E