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James Cook
James Cook found and named places around Stradbroke such as Point Lookout. -
Minjerribah people help Matthew Flinders
Minjerribah people helped Matthew Flinders find water he and his ship came ashore near Cylinder becah. This was possibly the first contact betweeen Aboriginals and Europens. -
Pamphlett, Finnegan & Parson
Pamphlett, Finnegan & Parson spent 8 months at Mortean Island after being shipwrecked, Nonnucalls (locals at Amity Point) looked after them and thaught them skills to survive. -
Naming of Stradbroke Island
Minjerribah renamed Stradbroke by Govener Darling in honour of Captain Earl Stradbroke. He captained the first ship to enter Mortean Bay. -
Cotton Plantation
Cotton Plantation established at Myora but ended shortly after. -
Converting Aboriginals
Missionaries set up a project to convert Aboriginals, but broke 3 years later. -
Quarentine Station
Dunwich Proclaimed Mortean bays quarentine station. Immagrents arrived with typhus - all 56 died and were burried at Dunwich Cemetry. -
Closure of Quarentine
The Dunwich quarentine was closed but it was still continues to be used as it became important as there were many sicknesses going around. -
Asylum to house elderly and homeless.
Asylum was created to house Mortean Bays elderly and homeless. -
Billy North
Lease for land was granted to Billy North at Point Lookout. He ran cattle and supplied meat to Dunwich asylum. Then converted into a fish cannery at two mile beach. -
Campus Wallace
Was wrecked into a narrow point of the island... After strong winds 2 years later and explosives in the ship exploding, it seperated the island, created North and South Stradbroke Island, -
Tourism at Point lookout
Tourism began at Point lookout. -
Lighthouse
Lighthouse at point lookout was built. -
Sand Mining
Sand Mining began by Zinc Corp. on Stradbroke island. -
Mining
Consoliated Rutile began mining. -
Ferries
Barge Lookout began operating from Cleveland and Stradbroke Ferries began operating firstly the Myora and then the Moongoolba. -
Dunwich settlement into timber depot.
November: 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 depot.
• January 1831-December 1832: 10 or more violent clashes occurred between
Stradbroke Island Aborigines and Europeans stationed at Dunwich and Amity. -
Deadmans Beach.
A ship filled with sugar cane machinery sunk off of Point Lookout. 50 years later a skeleton and boot was found in the sand of what is now known as deadmans beach. The belongings believed to be the ships cook. -
Ben Clayton
The first postal and telephone services began at Point lookout, which was hand stung by Ben Clayton.