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Series of events
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First Encounter
Captain Cook first discovered Australia and Stradbroke island -
Contact
The Minjerribah people helped Mathew Flinders' crew to find water after they came ashore on cylinder beach. This was the first recorded white - black contact -
Shipwreck
A ship shipwreck in Moreton bay and the three passengers spent the next eight months with the Aboriginals until they left using canoes that hey had made -
The naming
Minjerribah was renamed Stradbroke in honour of the first captain to enter Moreton bay -
Cotton
A cotton plantation was established on the island but was abandonded soon after -
Rising Tensions
Dunwhich settlement becomes a timber depot and is closed to the public. While more increasing conflict between the indeginous and white people are occuring -
Missonaires
4 people set up a missonary to try and convert aboriginals to christianity -
Quarantine
Dunwich was proclaimed as Stradborkes quarantine station and barely a week later a ship arrived with typhus on board. 56 people died from the disease -
No more Quarantine
The Quarantine station at Dunwich was closed, however it was still used if the need arose -
Asylum
The Dunwich quarantine station was converted into the Benevolent Asylum which opened in this year -
The split
A souternly gale finally broke through the thinest part of the island seperating it into two parts, the north and the south -
Fishing catastrophy
The fishery industry was severly impacted in a break out of mud worm. Leading to many people losing their jobs as it was a big employer -
Prosperity
The Prosperity sank off the coast of Stradbroke leaving only 5 survivours -
Tourism
This was the time where the tourism industry was set up on stradbroke -
Lighthouse
The Point Lookout Lighthouse was built with the cylinders being built on cylinder beach, hence the name -
Mining
The first sand mining began on Stradbroke using shovels and trucks -
Ferry
The first vehicular ferry sevice came to stradbroke making tourism easier. Also the Benevolent asylum closed and was made open to tourists -
More Mining
Mining for Rutile and Zircon began on the island making it the islands most major employer -
More ferrys
The ferries began to operate fully bringing an influx of new tourists