waterway, Fitzroy, rightly believed it would flow into Keppel Bay. A poster showing a cow with its head in the mineral and pastoral wealth of
Central Queensland and its hindquarters in Brisbane carried the 1960s caption, “The longest
milch cow in the world.
On a positive note, however, independence has benefited the city. J. The brothers and their band of servants were also the first Europeans to settle in the area in
, arriving at Gracemere, the site of their future farm, on 10 August 1855. "
Ludwig Letchart, a friend of the Archer brothers, named the main tributaries of the Fitzroy
Dawson, Comet, Mackenzie and Isaac, when they traveled to Port Essington in 18
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heeded their advice to seek the confluence of these tributaries. Wiseman, who graduated from Oxford
, proposed the first part as a rock pub symbol at the top of the
Navigator, and "Hampton" as a traditional English name for a town near water.
This spirit of independence has had both positive and negative effects on succeeding
generations, perhaps best illustrated by political influence upon state governments. Even so, Rockhampton’s spirit of independence, first noted
in the 1860s, has undoubtedly been enhanced by its several attempts to become capital of a
new state stretching westward from Keppel Bay to the Northern Territory border, south to the
Dawes Range and north to Capt Palmerston (south of Sarina), as defined in the 1890s. .
