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In September 1914, SS Marloo was steaming from Mackay to Brisbane when she hit a submerged danger on Sandy Cape Shoal off Fraser Island. She was taking on water fast, so the captain steered the ship and deliberately beached it on Fraser Island about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Waddy Point on 27 September 1914. [3]
On 30 April 2001 nine-year-old Clinton Gage was attacked and killed by two dingoes near Waddy Point on Fraser Island (K'gari). The incident and the following culling of 31 dingoes caused much outcry among the residents. There were many protests and the suggestion was made to erect fences.
K'gari (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː r i / GAH-ree, lit. ' Paradise '), [3] also known by its former name Fraser Island, [4] is a World Heritage-listed sand island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia.
Inskip Point is shown on Topo map sheet of Fraser Island, just south of Hook Point. Inskip Point is a peninsula in the north of the locality of Inskip to the north of the town of Rainbow Beach in south-east Queensland, Australia. [1] It is the vehicular gateway to K'Gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) via a barge service. [2]
From August 1934, tourists started coming to the Fraser Island Tourist Resort, a group of huts "offering every comfort and convenience" at Happy Valley. [4] [5] On 7 December 2020 a bushfire, started in October by an illegal campfire, threatened the town and caused residents to evacuate their homes as it burned out of control. [6]
Eliza Anne Fraser (c. 1798 – 1858) was an English woman known for being shipwrecked at K'gari, an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 22 May 1836.After being rescued from the island, she spoke and wrote of her experiences, including claims of being captured and enslaved by "Indians", native Butchalla people.
K'gari (formerly Fraser Island) is a locality on the island of the same name in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] The island of K'gari (previously known as Fraser Island) [3] is divided into two localities: this K'gari locality consisting of most of the land, and the locality of Eurong on the east coast of the island.
[4] [22] [16] [5] Petrie had heard from Aboriginal people on Fraser Island that another white man was living in the bush. [5] Explorer and tradesman Andrew Petrie located Davis in 1842. Petrie and his party planned to bring Davis back to Western society. Bracewell and an Aboriginal man from Moreton Bay managed to sneak into the Kabi Kabi ...