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13-April-2014
13-April-2014

Photographs supplied by John Huth

The spatial sciences profession ( surveyors, map makers and those who work with location information) placed over 60 GPS Marks at significant locations around Queensland during 2009 to commemorate Queensland's 150th anniversary and 150 years of surveying.

The marks accurately depict latitude and longitude and provide the public with a means to check the accuracy of their in-car, in-boat and hand-held navigation devices.

The project was launched at the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying in Brisbane on 24 June 2009.

Queensland's early explorers were often surveyors. Local members of SSSI (Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute) Queensland will tell the stories of early surveyors and map makers by placing signs adjacent to many of the GPS Marks and celebrating 150 years of Queensland's history through public events celebrating the past and showcasing the future of the profession.

Location

Address:Santa Barbara Parade, Datum Rock, Santa Barbara Park, Bowen, 4805
State:QLD
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -20.0165
Long: 148.249472
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Plaque
Monument Theme:Landscape
Sub-Theme:Settlement
Approx. Event Start Date:1859
Approx. Event End Date:2009

Dedication

Approx. Monument Dedication Date:2009
Front Inscription

Q150 (1859 - 2009) GPS Mark

Celebrating 150 years of surveying and providing a spatial future in Queensland.

The originals survey mark chiselled on the south face of the Datum Rock dates back to the hydrographic survey carried out in Port Denison by Lt. G. E. Richards R.N. in 1887.  The first town sections for the town of Bowen were carried out by Clarendon Stuart in 1861.

Commemorative Q150 Permanent Survey Mark

172895

Inscription in Proximity

On the datum rock opposite here the mark was made by Clarendon Stuart Government Surveyor for the original survey of the town of Bowen April 1861

Commemorated by Bowen Historical Society 

January 1970

Source: MA
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