Stradbroke Island History

  • James Cook landed in Botany Bay

    Sovereign
  • First Black-White contact (matthew flinders crew)

  • Aboriginals help three men when they shipwreck

  • Minjerribah is renamed Stradbroke Island

  • Dunwhich is made a quarintine 'station'

  • Lease is granted over point lookout

  • Mud worm outbreak causes problems for fisheries