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his boat on a beach on the western side of the island with some Ngaro people being employed to clean the hull. After these people had heard that some
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the island while sailing through the area in June 1770.
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333:"A brief history of the Whitsundays"
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554:Loos, Noel (1982),
337:Sailing Whitsundays
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1383:Whitsunday Islands
1359:20.250°S 148.967°E
1150:Cumberland Islands
950:The Three Brothers
491:"THE LOUISA MARIA"
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1198:Double Point
1156:Cape Upstart
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1262:11 August:
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1225:Trinity Bay
1188:Dunk Island
1178:Halifax Bay
1124:Repulse Bay
1119:Cape Conway
1108:Slade Point
1102:Broad Sound
1050:Bustard Bay
1028:Indian Head
1006:Moreton Bay
856:Point Hicks
595:16 December
63:Archipelago
1377:Categories
1293:Bird Isles
1220:Green Isle
1167:Palm Isles
1069:Keppel Bay
1039:Hervey Bay
1033:Sandy Cape
982:Queensland
967:Cape Byron
956:Smoky Cape
944:Cape Hawke
928:Broken Bay
916:Botany Bay
914:28 April:
908:25 April:
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379:2 November
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319:References
303:Whitsunday
105:Queensland
22:Whitsunday
1304:York Cape
1287:Bolt Head
1239:13 June:
1235:Low Isles
1218:10 June:
1097:Long Isle
1091:Pier Head
910:Red Point
867:Cape Howe
277:in 1767.
262:in 2010.
227:Geography
209:careening
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94:Australia
57:Coral Sea
48:Geography
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53:Location
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523:"BOWEN"
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141:History
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267:Pinaki
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191:Bowen
180:named
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629:2020
597:2018
560:ISBN
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