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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]
A dingo on K'gari in Queensland.. Dingo attacks on humans are rare in Australia, and when they do occur are generally on young children and small teenagers. [1] [2] However, dingoes are much more of a danger to livestock, especially to sheep and young cattle. [3]
' 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. The island lies approximately 250 km (160 mi) north of the state capital , Brisbane , and is within the Fraser Coast Region local council area.
The brown snake is not the most venomous Australian snake, but it has caused the most deaths. [1]Wildlife attacks in Australia occur every year from several different native species, [2] [3] including snakes, spiders, freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, various sharks, cassowaries, kangaroos, stingrays and stonefish and a variety of smaller marine creatures such as bluebottles, blue-ringed ...
SS Maheno was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935. She was also used as a ship by the New Zealand Naval Forces during World War I; as His Majesty's New Zealand Hospital Ship No. 1.
The Crown alleged that Lindy Chamberlain had cut Azaria's throat in the front seat of the family car, hiding the baby's body in a large camera case. She then, according to the proposed reconstruction of the crime, rejoined the group of campers around a campfire and fed one of her sons a can of baked beans, before going to the tent and raising the cry that a dingo had taken the baby.
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.
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]