Stage Number: MBSH.03.09.01
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Mount Gravatt-Mount Gravatt East
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: Selbourne /Grenfell Sts junction to Eyer St/Drury Lane junction, Mount Gravatt
Latitude & Longitude: -27.53608889,153.08068056
Time Link: 1941
Map Link: 1946
Image Time Point: 1946
An elevated Aboriginal camp, apparently the last of the Mt Gravatt region. This and the army huts in the vicinty became part of a ‘shanty town’ of hundreds of families – some Aboriginal – in the 1940s-1950s.
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Qimagery. Brisbane City Council Series 1946. Scale: 1:15,900.
