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Moreton Bay" is an Australian folk ballad. It tells of the hardship a convict experienced at penal settlements around Australia, in particular, the penal colony at Moreton Bay, Queensland , which was established to house convicts who had reoffended in settlements in New South Wales .
Captain Patrick Logan (baptised 15 November 1791 – 17 October 1830) was a Scottish army officer who was the commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement from 1826 until his death in 1830 at the hands of Aboriginal Australians. [1]
The popular ballad Moreton Bay or A Convict's Lament, [4] often sung in Australian primary schools, has been attributed to Frank the Poet. His published work, A Convict's Tour to Hell was written in October 1839 while he worked as a shepherd at Stroud .
Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from central Brisbane, Queensland. [2] It is one of Queensland's most important coastal resources. [ 3 ] The waters of Moreton Bay are a popular destination for recreational anglers and are used by commercial operators who provide seafood to market.
Kooringal is a coastal town and locality on the south-west coast of Moreton Island within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Kooringal had a population of 43 people. [1]
The tune had previously been borrowed for the Irish/Australian traditional song "Moreton Bay" (1830), about an Irish convict's brutal treatment in Australia, and would later be used by Seán Ó Riada as part of the film score for Mise Éire . The song was inspired by songs contemporary to the events of 1798 such as "Come All You Warriors".
Gala Mill is the third studio album by Australian band the Drones, which was released in September 2006.Recorded in an abandoned mill in Tasmania, it was their last album to feature founding member Rui Pereira [5] and the first to feature Mike Noga on drums.
6 inch Mk XI gun and crew, Fort Cowan Cowan, November 1943. Fort Cowan Cowan is located at Cowan Cowan Village, Moreton Island. The area is approximately 34,616.033 metres (113,569.66 ft) square, roughly triangular in shape and stretches along the western beach from the Cowan Cowan Lighthouse in south to the northern end of Cowan Cowan Village.