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James cook
James cook discovers charts stradbroke and named north stradbrok -
stradbroke people help ship
A group of stradbroke island people helped mathew flinders crew come to shore, this marked the first non islander people meting -
three men travel around island in th ecar of the natives
Timbergetters Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons were shipwrecked on Moreton Island and spent the next eight months travelling around Moreton Bay. The Noonucals at Pulan (Amity Point) looked after them for nearly six weeks. They housed, fed and advised the trio on canoe making, and saw them off some months later in the craft they’d made on the island. During their time on Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island), the three experienced bora gatherings, and ceremonial, celebratory and gladatorial events -
Stradbroke gets it name and settlement
In june minjerribah got named stradbroke by JH Rous probaly because his father was the earl of strabroke, commander logan selected dunwich for the moretan bay settlement. In i november logan was enstructed to create an unloading bay at dunwich -
Cotten plant established
this show that the community was growing at moongalba -
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Amity point history
The fourth Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, Captain James Clunie, requested that the Dunwich settlement be closed. His request was granted. After it closed, it became a timber depo. more violent clashes occurred between
Stradbroke Island Aborigines and Europeans stationed at Dunwich and Amity. The schooner Caledonia was seized by convicts and moored off Amity Point. -
Emigrant
Dunwich was proclaimed the moretan bay quarantine center. The ship Emigrant showed up with typhus, the passengers were put into the center but 56 people died -
Quarantine closed
The Dunwich quarantine station closed but the site continued to be used for the next decade as the need arose. -
Dunwich asylum
The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was set up to house Moreton Bay’s elderly and homeless.It occupied the former quarantine station buildings. The asylum was officially opened in 1867 -
Billy north
Billy north was granted a lease over point lookout, for 40 years he ran cattle and a fish cannery, A barque, the Cambus Wallace, was wrecked on the ocean side of a very narrow
part of Stradbroke Island. Two years later, a southerly gale led to the breakthrough of the strip and from this time on, North and South Stradbroke have been two separate islands. It is believed that the breakthrough was hastened by earlier efforts to salvage the cargo. In particular, the ship’s cargo of explosives had bee -
Mud worm
Moretan bays oyster business was being crippled by mud worm that was killing oysters, oystering had been the biggest sea food industry in southern QLD for years -
prosperity
the prosperity sank off point lookout with sugar machinery, the five surviviors were taken care of at point lookout, a skeletan and a boot in 1956 were found on dead mans beach, it is believed it could have come from the prosperity -
Tourist boom
point lookouts first tourist boom started when bert clayton bought land gorge, the first guests were in tents but later replaced with cabins -
point lookout lighthhouse built
The Point Lookout lighthouse was built. Materials for its construction were landed on a Point Lookout beach, and the cylinders for the light were constructed on the beach and carried up to the site. As a result the beach became known as Cylinder Beach.
