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Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook passed by North Stradbroke Island in 1770 -
Matthew Flynders
A group of Stradbroke Island people helped Matthew Flinders' crew find water when they came ashore near Cylinder Beach on their way back to Sydney. This was the very first black-white contact on the island. -
Pamphlett, Finnegan, Parsons
Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons are ship wrecked on Moreton Island. The local aboriginals looked after the trio and provided them with shelter, food and water. They experianced many aboriginal traditional events. -
Renaming of the Island
Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke Island in honour of Captain JH Rous the son of the Earl of Stradbroke who was commander of HMS Rainbow, the first military ship to enter Moreton Bay. -
Cotton plantations
Cotton plantations bagan and were later abandoned not long after. -
closing colonies
November: The fourth Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, Captain James Clunie, requested that the Dunwich settlement to be closed. He was allowed this. It closed and became a timber debot -
Moreton Bay Quarantene Station
Dunwich was to be Moreton Bay’s quarantine station. A shipment of people arrived. The passengers were put into quarantine at Dunwich. 56 people died. Allot of them are buried in the Dunwich cemetery. -
Quarantene Station closed
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the Benevolent Asylum which was completed
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Billy North
Was granted a lease over Point Lookout. He grew crops and looked after cattle while running a growing fish canery. -
Mud worm
Mud Worms were being slowly destroying Moreton Bays and Stradbrokes fisheries. -
More Shipwrecks
Proparity the ship, sank off Point Lookout on its way from Sydney with sugar machinery. There were 5 survivors. In 1956, a skeleton and boot were uncovered in the sand on Deadman’s Beach and it this is the origin of the name. -
Development
Guest homes were established and the first tourism buisnesses were beginning. -
The point Lookout Lighthouse was built
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Hospital ship Torpedoed
The Australian hospital ship named the Centaur was torpedoedoff stradbroke. 268 people died and only 64 people lived. -
Development
A vehicular ferry service started and the first surf life saving patrols started at point Lookout. -
Sand Mining Began
Zinc Corp began sand mining on Stradbroke Island. The sand was shovelled by hand from Main Beach and trucked to Dunwich. The mining partly solved the unemployment problems on the island. -
Hospital openings and further mining development.
A hospital opened. Many mining operations began -
Barge Lookout began operating