The North
An introductory look at the region.
Outlines delivers the back story before the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.
Borders looks to define The North's geographic limits and links to the rest of Queensland. A discussion of Queensland's railway history underlines a regionalism that may not exist to the same extent in other states.
Australia continues through the early years of European settlement until John Oxley investigates possible sites for a new penal colony and the convicts arrive in what we now know as Queensland.
Queensland continues through the convict era until the new colony's separation from New South Wales in 1859.
