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James Cook discovers morton bay
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John Oxley sailed North from Sydney to explore Port Curtis and morton bay as potentiol penal settlements
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John Oxley in search of a new settlement and surveys morton bay on the 25th of november that year
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the first penalsettlement was established in redcliffe point on moreton bay.
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morton bay settlement was established and the location of humpybong had been chosen as the sight
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the morton bay colony moves and is established on the banks of brisbane river under the command of captain miller