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James Cook
Lieutenant James Cook sailed to Australia in 1770, charting the outer reaches of Moreton Bay and naming several prominent features of the Island, including Point Lookout by way of warning fellow explorers to be aware of the rocky outcrop. -
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Pamphlett, Finnegan, Parsons
Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons were shipwrecked on Moreton Island and spent eight months exploring around Moreton Bay. -
Noonucals
The Noonucals showed Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons how to make a canoe from the local timber and it was in this vessel that they departed six weeks later. -
Captain J.H. Rous
In June 1827, Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke Island by Governor Darling in reverence of the Honourable Captain J.H. Rous, son of the Earl of Stradbroke and also Viscount Dunwich. -
John Oxley, Robert Hoddle and Allan Cunningham
John Oxley arrived at Pulan and named it Cypress Point whilst on an exploratory mission with fellow surveyor Robert Hoddle and botanist Allan Cunningham in search of a suitable site for a penal colony. -
Ngugi people of Moreton Island
Not all relations were soured however and when the “Sovereign” sank in the South Passage in 1847, considerable recognition was granted to the Minjerribah people and the Ngugi people of Moreton Island for their valiant efforts to rescue the stricken crew. They were rewarded with a boat and breastplates in gratitude for their assistance.
It was in this year that all the Ngugi people moved to Minjerribah, leaving Moreton Island permanently. -
Matron Marie Christensen
Murder came calling in September of 1896, at the hands of Matron Marie Christensen at the Myora Mission. She was charged with murder, later reduced to manslaughter for killing five year old Cassy whom she beat to death for swimming with the boys.