Harry Wydell North Stradbroke Island

By hwydell

  • First Encounter

    Captain Cook first discovered Australia and Stradbroke island.

  • Contact

    The Minjerribah people helped Mathew Flinders' crew to find water after they came ashore on cylinder beach. This was the first recorded white - black contact.

  • Shipwreck

    A ship sunk in Moreton bay and the three passengers spent the next eight months with the Aboriginals until they left using canoes that hey had made.

  • The Naming

    Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke in honour of the first captain to enter Moreton bay.

  • Cotton

    A cotton plantation was established on the island but was abandonded soon after.

  • Rising Tensions

    Dunwhich settlement becomes a timber depot and is closed to the public. While more increasing conflict between the indeginous and white people are occuring.

  • Missionaries

    4 people set up a missonary to try and convert aboriginals to christianity.

  • Quarantine

    Dunwich was proclaimed as Stradborkes quarantine station and barely a week later a ship arrived with typhus on board. 56 people died from the disease.

  • No more quarantine

    The Quarantine station at Dunwich was closed, however it was still used if the need arose.

  • Asylum

    The Dunwich quarantine station was converted into the Benevolent Asylum which opened in this year.

  • The Split

    A souternly gale finally broke through the thinest part of the island seperating it into two parts, the north and the south.

  • Fishing Catastrophy

    The fishery industry was severly impacted in a break out of mud worm. Leading to many people losing their jobs as it was a big employer.

  • Prosperity

    The Prosperity sank off the coast of Stradbroke leaving only 5 survivours.

  • Tourism

    This was the time where the tourism industry was set up on stradbroke.

  • Lighthouse

    The Point Lookout Lighthouse was built with the cylinders being built on cylinder beach, hence the name.

  • Mining

    The first sand mining began on Stradbroke using shovels and trucks.

  • Ferry's

    The first vehicular ferry sevice came to stradbroke making tourism easier. Also the Benevolent asylum closed and was made open to tourists.

  • More Mining

    Mining for Rutile and Zircon began on the island making it the islands most major employer.

  • More Ferries

    The ferries began to operate fully bringing an influx of new tourists.