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Lieutenant James Cook charted the outside of Moreton Bay and named several
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A group of Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) people helped Matthew Flinders’ crew
find water when they came ashore near Cylinder Beach on their way back to
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Timbergetters Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons were shipwrecked on Moreton
Island and spent the next eight months travelling around Moreton Bay. The
Noonucals at Pulan (Amity Point) looked after them for nearly six weeks. They
housed, fed and advised the trio on canoe making, and saw them off some months
later in the craft they’d made on the island. During their time on Minjerribah
(Stradbroke Island), the three experienced bora gatherings, and ceremonial,
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In June Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke Island by Governor Darling in honor
of the Honourable Captain JH Rous, son of the Earl of Stradbroke and also
Viscount Dunwich. Rous was commander of HMS Rainbow, the first ship of war to
enter Moreton Bay. Darling also named Dunwich, Rainbow Reach and Rous’
Channel. • Commandant Patrick Logan selected Dunwich as a possible site for the Moreton
Bay settlement following concerns about Brisbane’s suitability due to obstructions
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A cotton plantation was established at Moongalba (Myora).
It was abandoned not long after. -
November: the fourth Commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, Captain
James Clunie, requested that the Dunwich settlement be closed. His request was
granted. After it closed, it became a timber depot.10
• January 1831-December 1832: 10 or more violent clashes occurred between
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The schooner Caledonia was seized by convicts and moored off Amity Point.
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The pilot station at Amity Point was closed.
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On 16 July Dunwich was proclaimed Moreton Bay’s quarantine station. Only
weeks later, the immigrant ship Emigrant arrived with typhus on board. The
passengers were put into quarantine at Dunwich.21 In all, 56 people died. Many are
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The Dunwich quarantine station closed but the site continued to be used for the
next decade as the need arose. -
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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 in 1908.40
• 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 -
By this time, Moreton Bay’s oyster fisheries were slowly 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.47 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. -
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
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uncovered in the sand on Deadman’s Beach, and it is believed they were the
remains of the Prosperity’s mate or cook.49 This is the origin of the name. -
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Also The four bed hospital is opened
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