Subject	Voyages and travels
	Australia–Social life and customs
	Frontier and pioneer life–Australia–Queensland
	Queensland–History
	Explorers
	German diaries
	German letters
	Return migration
	Correspondence
Category	1. Settlement
Creator	Beckler, Hermann
Person	Burke, Robert O’Hara
Current Holder	State Library of Victoria
Period Of Reference	1855/1914
Date	1855-01-01
Series Number	MS 14676
Item Number	9916410783607636
Access Rights	Request at location
Rights	Copyright Undetermined. Copyright or permission restrictions may apply.
Country Of Origin	Australia
Place	Moreton Bay
	Melbourne
	Menindee
	Hamburg
Language	German
Description From Source	39.0 cm. (3 boxes). Photocopies, typescript, microform. Heimatmuseum Höchstadt Höchstädt. In German. Transcript of “Expeditionsbericht, S.1-175”; photocopy of German monograph “Kurze Beschreibung der neuen Colonie Queensland in Australien und ihrer vortheile fur ansiedler und einwanderer”; article about Australia in newspaper, “Australische Monat Zeitung”, No.3, April 1962; German transcript of Hermann Beckler’s shipboard diary, documenting his voyage from Hamburg to Moreton Bay (1855); Extracts from “Das Ausland”, Vol. 33, 1860; transcripts of letters written by Hermann Beckler between 1855 and 1861 with handwritten index; microform copies of the original handwritten diary and letters. After testifying to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the expedition in 1862, he returned to Germany and spent the rest of his life as a village doctor.
Physical Format	Correspondence
	Diaries
	Manuscripts
	Letters
	Newspapers
	Records
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