Later Life
A few years before his death the Queensland parliament voted Landsborough £2000 for his services as an explorer, and with this he purchased a pastoral property at Caloundra which he named Loch Lamerough. He died and was buried there in 1886. In 1913, his widow had him reburied at Toowong Cemetery.
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