Stradbroke Island events in time

By FHeath

  • James cook charted outside of Moreton bay

  • Thomas Pamphlett

    Timbergetter Thomas Pamphlett,Finnegan and Parson were Shipwrecked on Moreton bay, which they stayed on for 6 months, then the people of Straddie helped them for six weeks

  • John Oxley

    Surveyer General John Oxley visited visitedPulan and called it Cyprus point

  • Amity point

    Amity point was set up as moreton bay's first pilot station

  • Minjerrabah renamed Stradbroke island

  • Cotton plantation was established then abandoned

  • Captain James Clunie requests Dunwich settlement to be closed

  • Thomas Pamphlett

    A group of people from straddie helped the Matthew Flinders crew find water when they came ashore to cylinder beach on their way back to Sydney

  • Immagrint ship arrives at Dunwich 51 dead buried at Dunwich

  • Dunwich Quarantine station closed

  • Billy North was granted a lease to point lookout

  • Moreton Bay's oyster bays were being destroyed by mud worm

  • Ship sinks outside of point lookout

  • Tourism starts at point lookout

  • Point lookout lighthouse was built

  • Hospital ship CENTAUR was torpedoed

  • Vehicle ferry starts buisness

  • Sand mining starts

  • Rutile began mining operations

  • Barge lookout began buisness