Stradbroke island

By graysonkoy

  • James Cook named features such as Point Lookout

  • Minjerribah people helped Matthew Flinder's crew

  • Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons shipwrecked

  • Minjerribah was renamed to Stradbroke island

  • A cotton plantation was established

  • The Immigrant ship Emigrant arrived with typhus on board, the passengers were put in quarantine

  • Quarantine station closed

  • Benevolent Asylum set up

  • Oyster fisheries were destroyed by an outbreak of mud worm

  • The Prosperity sank at Point Lookout, five survivors were cared for

  • First tourism venture

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    Battles occured at Dunwich and Amity