Nature, progress and the 'disorderly' Fitzroy: The vain quest for Queensland's 'Noblest Navigable River', 1865-1965

Environment and History

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 275-299

  Webster, Barbara ^a   Mullins, Steven ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian environment; River training; Training walls; Waterway engineering

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER MANAGEMENT; WATERWAY TRANSPORT;

AUSTRALIA; FITZROY RIVER; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 0141639624     PISSN: 09673407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096734003129342854     Document Type: Article

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