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James Cook charted outside Moreton Bay and named several features of Stradbroke island including Point lookout.
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A group of Stradbroke Islanders helped Mathew Flinders crew find water when they came ashore near Cylinder Beach.
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Timbergetters Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons were shipwrecked on Moreton Island. they spent the next eight months travelling around Moreton Bay.
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Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke Island by govener Darling in honor of the honourable Captain JH Rous.
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A cotton plantation was established at Moongalba (Myora). It was abandoned not long after.
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January 1831 - December 1832,10 or more violent clashes occurred between Stradbroke Island Aborigines and Europeans stationed at Dunwich and Amity.
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Dunwich was proclaimed Moreton Bay’s quarantine station.Weeks later, the immigrant ship Emigrant arrived with typhus on board. The passengers were put into quarantine at Dunwich 56 people died and many are buried in the Dunwich cemetery.
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Dunwich quarantine station closed but the site continued to be used for the next decade as the need arose.
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The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was set up to house Moreton Bay’s elderly and homeless. It occupied the former quarantine station buildings. The asylum was officially opened in 1867.
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Billy North was granted a lease over Point Lookout. For nearly 40 years, he ran cattle, at one stage supplying beef to the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum. He also operated a fish cannery at Two Mile outside Dunwich. The quality of his canned fish was recognised by a medal from the National Agricultural and Industrial Association. A barque, the Cambus Wallace, was wrecked on the ocean side of a very narrow part of Stradbroke Island. Two years later, a southerly gale led to the breakthrough of the str
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Moreton Bay’s oyster fisheries were being destroyed by an outbreak of mud worm. Oystering had been the biggest seafood industry in southern Qld for years, employing hundreds of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people over decades.Many oystermen lived in rough camps on the Bay Islands and Stradbroke. Dwellings comprised simple shacks made of bark and slab, with two-room cottages built as incomes improved.
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The Prosperity sank off Point Lookout on its way from Sydney with sugar machinery for Mourilyan Harbour in North Queensland. Five survivors were cared for at Point Lookout before returning home. In 1956 a skeleton and boot were
uncovered in the sand on Deadman’s Beach, and it is believed they were the remains of the Prosperity’s mate or cook. This is the origin of the name. -
Point Lookout’s first tourism venture started in the 1930s when Bert Clayton bought land above South Gorge to establish a guest house. The first guests were accommodated in tents which were slowly replaced by one-room cabins. He sold up in 1946 and the new owners, the Bulcocks, renamed the complex Samarinda
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The Point Lookout lighthouse was built. Materials for its construction were landed on a Point Lookout beach, and the cylinders for the light were constructed on the beach and carried up to the site. As a result the beach became known as Cylinder Beach
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The Australian hospital ship Centaur was torpedoed off Stradbroke Island on 14 May 1943. A total of 268 lives were lost and only 64 people survived. • The Moongalba/Myora mission was closed. Most residents moved to One Mile where the Moongalba buildings were re erected. The Moongalba families weren’t allowed to live in Dunwich.
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The first life-saving patrols started at Point Lookout. The following year the Point Lookout club became affiliated with the Queensland Surf Life Saving Association. The army tent used in the early days was replaced by the club’s first permanent clubhouse in 1950.
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Zinc Corp began sand mining on Stradbroke Island. The first shipment left the Island in 1950. The sand was shovelled by hand from Main Beach and trucked to Dunwich.The mining partly solved the unemployment problems on the Island.
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The four-bed Dunwich Hospital was opened.
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Barge began operating from Cleveland and Stradbroke Ferries began operating firstly the Myora and then the Moongoolba
