23-568: Sir Charles Hardy Islands is in the reef of the same name adjacent to Pollard Channel & Blackwood Channel about 40 km east of Cape Grenville off Cape York Peninsula . Shipwrecks in this area include: On board was Captain Thomas D'Oyly of the Bengal Artillery and his family. On its voyage from Sydney to India, it struck the Great Detached Reef, approximately 40 miles east of
46-505: A cannon later rumoured to have been lost by the Spaniard De Quirros . The Sir Charles Hardy Islands are the closest terrestrial islands, approximately 60 miles to the south-west of Pandora Entrance. Chartered to carry the explorer William Landsborough , his party and their supplies to last for six months in the search for Burke and Wills , before proceeding on to Surabaya . It was considered that Burke would have attempted to make
69-543: A pastoral property near present-day Caloundra which he named Loch Lamerough . He died and was buried there in March 1886. On 13 June 1913, his widow had him reburied at Toowong Cemetery in Brisbane . Landsborough was in the vanguard of exploration in northern and eastern Queensland in the middle of the 19th century, his explorations resulting in the opening up of vast areas of northern and north-eastern Australia to settlement. As
92-564: A result, there are numerous places named after Landsborough, including: as well as a number of streets, creeks and mountains in Australia and also in New Zealand . The William Landsborough Diaries (1856-1886), held by the State Library of Queensland , were ranked #39 in the "Top 150: Documenting Queensland" exhibition which toured taround Queensland from February 2009 to April 2010, as part of
115-779: A straight course from Eyres Creek to the Albert, and so the Albert was selected as the starting point. She sailed from Melbourne on 29 July 1861. After loading 30 horses and forage, on 24 August 1861 they left Brisbane to sail for the Gulf in company with the HMCSS Victoria captained by Commander William Henry Norman . A hurricane struck near Raine Island and the Firefly grounded adjacent to Sir Charles Hardy's Islands. Cape Grenville Cape Grenville ( 11°58′S 143°15′E / 11.967°S 143.250°E / -11.967; 143.250 ),
138-530: Is a small, east-facing promontory along the Queensland, Australia coast of Cape York Peninsula . It lies between Shelburne Bay to the north and Temple Bay to the south. The nearest significant settlement is Weipa , along the western coast of Cape York. The northern part of this cape forms the southern face of Margaret Bay, to the west of Shelburne Bay. Several small islands (known as the Home Islands) lie off
161-735: The traditional owners of the Cape Grenville region. They previously spoke the now extinct Wuthathi language . The Wuthathi Land Trust won control of "fifteen parcels of former Aboriginal reserve land, and land declared claimable under the Act on the Cape Grenville Reserve Islands and the Cape Grenville Unallocated State Land Islands of Rodney Island , Manley Island, Pig Island , Bootie Island , Sunday Island , Ethel Island and three un-named islands" which
184-524: The Dutch barque De Nijverheid and proceed to Batavia , finally joining the steamer Ann which took them to Singapore . Captain Bowden. Sailed from Sydney to Gladstone, where she took on horses for Madras , leaving 8 September 1859. Wrecked on a reef near Raine Island , Queensland, 22 September 1859. The crew took to the boats but while passing through Torres Strait they were attacked by natives, several members of
207-537: The Sir Charles Hardy Islands, on the outer Barrier Reef on 15 August 1834. Four of the crew succeeded in launching the only undamaged boat and were subsequently joined by two other sailors who swam across the reef. They set out for Timor but came ashore at what was then called Timor Laut, north east of Timor. Today the island is called Yamdena and it is part of the Tenimbar group of islands. Those abandoned at
230-579: The boys, the ship's boy John Ireland and young William D'Oyly, were rescued by a husband and wife from Murray Island (local name Mer) in exchange for a bunch of bananas. They were Duppa and his wife Panney. They were able to identify Ireland and William D'Oyly as the ghosts of two relatives. The other two boys, ship's boy John Sexton and George D'Oyly, did not survive for long. Sexton was also murdered but George D'Oyly may have died from natural causes. The Murray Islanders treated Ireland and William D'Oyly with great kindness, from about October 1834 to June 1836, when
253-474: The crew killed. One boat sighted a derelict near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands and recognised her to be the Liverpool ship Marina, which they had last seen at Sydney. They repaired her and spent three hazardous months sailing her to Port Curtis . After being further repaired at Gladstone, she foundered off Cape Moreton, 1860, when sailing for Sydney. No lives lost. Her loss is associated with the mysterious origin of
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#1732891812113276-516: The district of Burke in the Gulf country. Finding the township of Burketown riddled with fever, he made Sweers Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria his headquarters. His wife and two children joined him soon afterwards, living on Sweers Island, and from there he did much local exploring. In 1882, the Queensland parliament voted Landsborough £2000 for his services as an explorer, and with this he purchased
299-636: The eastern coast, including Orton Island , Gore Island and Hicks Island . Along the southern side of the cape is Indian Bay. About 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the east and northeast of Cape Grenville is the far northern management area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park . Persistent winds have blown sand on-shore and inland for up to 29 kilometres (18 mi) at the cape. These parabolic dunes form Queensland's most extensive mainland transgressive dune system, slightly larger than those found at Cape Flattery . The Wuthathi people are
322-609: The murdered passengers and crew. Lewis took leave of absence to take the young D’Oyly back to England to be placed in the care of relatives. The 27 passengers and crew crowded into the longboat and set out for the Australian mainland. After passing through the Barrier Reef near the Sir Charles Hardy group of islands they received some supplies from the barque Ellen , repaired their rudder at Tuesday Island, declined an offer to board
345-770: The northern tip of Cape York Peninsula. Also, at [26] as lying wholly within the wider area of Wuthathi country, which extends along the coast to Captain Billy Landing in the north, extending southwards to south of the Olive River, and east to the Great Barrier Reef." 7304 hectares of wetlands on Cape Grenville have been listed as "nationally important wetlands" in the Directory of Important Wetlands (2001) 3rd Edition, Environment Australia. William Landsborough William Landsborough (21 February 1825 – 16 March 1886)
368-700: The schooner Isabella arrived. Reports had started appearing in the international press that survivors of the "Charles Eaton" wreck were being held at Murray Island. The New South Wales colonial government was instructed by the British Home Office to send a rescue mission. They dispatched the colonial schooner "Isabella" for that purpose, under the command of Captain Charles Morgan Lewis. Ireland and William D’Oyly were handed over to Lewis in exchange for some gifts. Lewis returned with them to Sydney. The ship also carried back skulls, most of which were those of
391-489: The two young sons of Captain Thomas D'Oyly and his wife Charlotte. They were George, aged seven, and William, aged three. The Torres Strait islanders had only limited contact with white people in 1834 and believed that they were the ghosts of dead people and therefore already not in the land of the living. Only the four boys were identified as having potential trading value as the possible ghosts of dead islanders. The four boys lived with their captors for some months, when two of
414-471: The wreck made two rafts, which separately set out for the mainland. The first raft reached a small sandy cay known today as Boydang, inhabited at the time by about 60 Torres Strait Islanders on a fishing expedition. The second raft, which left the wreck a week or more later, was intercepted by the islanders and taken to a small sandy cay called Wallace Island. The visiting Torres Strait islanders murdered all except two ship's boys, John Ireland and John Sexton, and
437-536: Was also experiencing financial difficulties. In 1869, after years of drought and with facing increasing debt, Landsborough finally handed over his shareholdings in the company to Morehead and Young. Landsborough was made a Life Member of the Queensland Legislative Council in 1865 but served for only one session. Looking for employment, towards the end of 1865 he was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands, Police Magistrate and Sub Collector of Customs for
460-586: Was an explorer of Australia . He was notable for being the first explorer to complete a North-to-South crossing of Australia. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council . Landsborough was born on 21 February 1825, in Stevenston , Ayrshire , Scotland , the son of David Landsborough and his wife Margaret ( née McLeish). Landsborough was educated in Irvine and migrated to Australia in 1842, several years after his brothers James and John. At that time, this
483-710: Was granted under the Aboriginal Land Act 1991 (Qld). On 29 April 2015 a large block of land, and surrounding waters, including Cape Grenville, were recognised by the Federal Court of Australia as belonging to the Wuthathi people: ". . . recognised the exclusive and nonexclusive native title rights and interests of the Wuthathi People over approximately 1181 square kilometres of land described at [4] as an ecologically sensitive and beautiful area around Shelburne Bay on
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#1732891812113506-456: Was the most northerly coastal settlement along the eastern seaboard of Australia and it was here that Landsborough began his career as an explorer. Between 1856 and 1861, each year when the shearing season was over, he explored north and west, each time deeper into unknown territory. He preferred to travel in a small group usually with one or two friends and an Aboriginal tracker. As Thomas Welsby later wrote, "A sequel to Landsborough's expeditions
529-483: Was the race for the magnificent, pastoral country described by him". In August 1861, he was placed in charge of one of the four parties sent out to search for the lost explorers, Burke and Wills . William and his wife Caroline returned to Australia in late 1864 to discover that while they were away their property in Broad Sound, Glen Prairie, had been sold under mysterious circumstances. The Landsborough River Company
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