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Boomerang Island
HISTORY
Boomerang Island
On 9 September 1860 QGS Spitfire, on
her way to survey Port Denison preparatory to a settlement being established
there, anchored overnight in Port Molle 'in 7 1/ 2 fathoms on its
southern side, abreast a beach on the northern face of Boomerang Island'. The
narrative goes on to talk about a wreck on the beach indicating this could only
be today's Long Island, the name of which appeared officially on
Admiralty charts in 1863 and the wreck referred to was that of the merchant
vessel Valetta at today's Happy Bay (Queensland Government Printer
Report of the Proceedings of QGS Spitfire in search of the mouth of the
River Burdekin 1860).
The Information on the Whitsunday Islands is reproduced by kind permission of Mr. Ray Blackwood from his book: " The Whitsunday Islands An Historical Dictionary ".
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