Straddie

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  • James Cook came

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    Stradbroke Island

  • Pamphelett, Finngegan, Parsons

  • Noonucals Trible

    They were a tribe of Aboriginal people

  • John Oxely came

  • Cotton Plantation was established

    A cotton plantation was established but was then abandoned soon after.

  • Surveying Stradbroke

    Robert Dixon began surveying straddie

  • Missonaries where set up

  • Aborigines began being inployed to harvest dugong

  • Aborigines began being payed to work

  • Straddie oysters were harvested

  • Islands first school was made

  • Aborigines protection act was made

  • Dunwich Prvisional school was opened

  • Amity point got its first telephone service

  • first bus from Amity Point to Point lookout

  • School closed on the Island

  • First Stradbroke representative was appointed

  • St Paul Catholic church was built

  • A water taxi service started operating

  • Island residents protested against sending fresh water to mainland

  • Firebrigads were set up at Point Lookout

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