One of the first field trips undertaken by the Queensland Historical Atlas PhD students Luke Keogh and Owen Powell took them to the Warrego River in south-west Queensland. This fieldwork was a distinct moment for the Atlas; instead of funding cartographers to produce new maps the Australian Research Council grant funded fieldwork. A search of the landscape. The Warrego research set out to accurately remap the campsites of Edmund Kennedy from his 1847 journey down the Warrego and to compare Kennedy’s landscape to those of today.