Hervey Bay. Whale watching on the Spirit of Hervey Bay Whale watching cruise along Fraser Island. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hervey Bay. Whale watching on the Spirit of Hervey Bay Whale watching cruise along Fraser Island. / denisbin
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| 説明 | History of Hervey Bay. When Captain Cook rounded Fraser Island in 1770 he thought it was part of the mainland as he did not explore Wide Bay. He named the shoreline bay here Hervey Bay after Augustus Hervey the first Lord of the British Admiralty at that time. By the mid-1850s pastoral lands were being leased from Point Vernon to Urangan. Boyle Martin was the first white settler and he took up his land at Pialba in 1866 for timber cutting. The settlement that emerged at this place was called Polson but that was changed to Pialba in 1931. Danish settlers like this spot too and they built there Danish Church at Polson in 1875. The first Danish settlers arrived here in 1871 and one of them Polson donated land for the church and cemetery. A railway was built from Maryborough to Polson in 1896. Point Vernon was named in 1861 after a British naval commander. In the 1870s it was informally known as Aalborg because of the Danish dairy farmers living there. Settlement at Urangan was later with the first sugar plantation and sugar mill being established in 1884. By the 1890s this was a favoured coastal holiday town with wealthy residents of Maryborough having houses here. The Maryborough to Pialba railway was extended in 1913 to Urangan and the town wharf was erected thereafter in 1917. In 1916 Urangan got a government school which is now heritage listed and a high school in 1922. With economic expansion in the 1960s and the growth of tourism and its proximity to Fraser Island the settlements of Urangan, Hervey Bay, Pialba and Point Vernon coalesced along a 20 kilometre stretch of coastline. The Hervey Bay Airport was established in 1961. But the five separate little towns along the coast from Point Vernon to Urangan were not formally recognised as the City of Hervey Bay until 1984. Hervey Bay had a population of over 52,000 in the 2016 census. Cemeteries - Ninkenbah Danish Cemetery and Polson at Point Vernon. Like Maryborough many Danish settlers came to the Hervey Bay district and among the earliest was Anders Jensen and his wife. He was born in Aalborg Denmark in 1848. He came to Maryborough in the 1871 and married his first wife in Maryborough in 1872. He had fifteen children with his first wife. He remarried in 1911. Anders Jensen died at Hervey Bay in 1923 and was buried in the Ninkenbah Danish cemetery in Aalborg Road. Anders was a farmer and took up land near Hervey in 1879. Danish cemeteries in Australia must be rare. This could be the only one. A Danish church( Church of Denmark Abroad) was built on this site in 1875 as well as the cemetery. Burials in this cemetery include: Rasmussen, Jensen, Andersen, Pedersen, Berthelsen, Bundesen, Jorgensen, Carlson, Moes, Hansen, Christiansen, Lund, Lowe, List, Lindholt, Bengston, Madsen, Nielsen, Stephensen, Knudsen (Norwegian). The Polson Cemetery has a large memorial to the Kanaka people. It was erected as a memorial to all South sea Islanders who worked as indentured labourers between 1863 and 1906. Many were employed on the sugar plantations around Hervey Bay. There are 55 unmarked Kanaka graves in the Polson cemetery. The statue is of a Kanaka with a sugar cane knife in one hand a dead compatriot at his feet. The background represents the sugar cane. Captain Coath a vicious South Sea Islander trader was later imprisoned for mistreatment of Kanakas on the voyage to Hervey Bay. This first shipload of workers arrived at Hervey Bay area was in the early 1880s. Some Kanaka History. As British colonies Queensland had good intentions to care for and protect the rights of South Sea Islanders but as the world is an imperfect place these rights were not always well protected. The 1868 Polynesian Labourers Act mainly tried to prevent “blackbirding” or kidnapping of South Sea Islanders. Captains of ships were prosecuted or jailed for kidnapping. Protectors of South Sea Islanders were employed by the government to check on health and accommodation and food issues. They visited plantations and spoke to Islanders. This prevent much abuse but not all. Conditions were harsh and difficult for the South Sea Islanders but then it was just as harsh for poor white labourers and their families in the late 19th century. In 1895 the Reverend William Gray wrote a book about the conditions endured by the Kanakas. He was born near Gawler in SA and trained at the University of Adelaide before travelling to the New Hebrides as a missionary. He was the first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Queensland and saw the trade as immoral much as Abolitionists in the northern half of the United States saw slavery in the South as immoral in the 1850s. The Queensland Kanaka Mission wrote an annual report on issues and Gray used this in part for his sources. He found that South Sea Islanders were treated more harshly in courts for their crimes than whites for similar offences. But he also noted that most Kanakas were as law abiding as white settlers. Gray died at Westbourne Park in 1937 after doing missionary work with Jean Flynn in the outback. With advent of the federation of Australia and the formation of the Commonwealth parliament a Royal Commission was held in Queensland in 1900 to consider how to deport Kanakas. Of the 60,000 Islanders recruited after 1863 the majority were to be "repatriated" (ie deported) by the Australian Government between 1906 and 1908 under the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901.This Pacific Island Labourers Act was prompted by the adoption of the White Australia policy. Some South Sea Islanders were exempted on grounds of marriage to Australians, residency for at least twenty years or ownership/leasehold of land or a business. The Spirit of Hervey Bay Cruise and Fraser Island.This largest sand island in the world at 120 kms long was declared a world heritage site in 1992. Geographically it is exceptional as it has areas of rainforest, open eucalyptus forest, heathlands, peat bogs and more. Its fauna includes reptiles, frogs and sometimes salt water crocodiles as well as numerous bird species and a few mammals – native mice, wallabies, possums, echidnas and dingoes etc. The sand of Fraser Island have been carried by northerly currents along the Australia coast and has been dumped along a spit which led to the formation of the island over thousands of years. Rain has created at least one creek on the island and winds from the ocean have led to the formation of dunes. As dunes have piled up on each other the central range of his sand hills were formed. Where clays have washed through the sand dunes coloured sands have been formed. Fraser Island also has over 100 fresh water lakes. Fraser Island was named after Eliza Fraser and her husband who were shipwrecked on the island in 1836 in a ship called the Stirling Castle. The passengers and crew then boarded lifeboats and set sails for Moreton Bay convict settlement to the south (Brisbane). Unfortunately the pregnant Eliza Fraser gave birth to a child in the life boat but the child did not survive. The life boat that the Frasers were in was taking water and was left behind by the other life boat. The occupants eventually landed on a great sandy island which is now known as Fraser Island. All the boat occupants died except for Eliza Fraser who was taken in by the local Aboriginal people. She was rescued six weeks later and taken back to Moreton Bay. Six months later she married again and returned to live in England. Here she told lurid tales of her adventure which by then included murder, torture and cannibalism. No one is quite certain of what really happened to Eliza Fraser on Fraser Island as she kept altering her story of the events. What is known is that the local Aboriginal people had lived on Fraser Island for about 5,000 years. They were removed from the island by the Queensland government in 1904 and relocated to several different Aboriginal mission stations. The Badtjala people were granted native title rights over the island in 2014. Today the island is a haven for tourists and up to half a million of them visit the island each year. Wide Bay between Hervey Bay and Fraser Island is a favoured spot for humpback whales to play and rest and mate on their annual migration from the Artic areas. There are often 400 to 500 humpback whales in Wide Bay at any one time and around 5,000 humpback whales visit the bay each year between July and November. The Spirit of Hervey Bay is the largest of the whale watching operators in Wide Bay and along Fraser Island. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-07-16 15:25:48 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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