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    Cape Moreton is a rocky headland at the north eastern tip of Moreton Island in South East Queensland, Australia. The surrounding area is part of the Moreton...
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    Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is an island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay on the coast of South East Queensland, Australia. The Coral Sea lies on the...
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    Cape Moreton Light, also listed as North Point Range Rear Light, is a heritage-listed active lighthouse located on Cape Moreton, a rocky headland located...
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  • Queensland Moreton Island, a large island within the bay Cape Moreton, a rocky headland on the north eastern tip of Moreton Island City of Moreton Bay, a...
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    almost all of the locality is within the Moreton Island National Park. Cape Moreton Lighthouse is on Cape Moreton, the north-eastern point of the island...
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    (then Moreton Bay) on 21 October 1848 on board the Ann Mary. This scheme continued until 1852. In 1857, Queensland's first lighthouse was built at Cape Moreton...
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    island is home to Queensland's oldest operating lighthouse located at Cape Moreton on the northern tip of the island. The township of Cowan was home to...
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    northern passage into Moreton Bay and Brisbane, at least five lighthouses were constructed on the island, starting with Cape Moreton Light in 1857 (167 years...
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    ship to arrive in Moreton Bay was the Artemisia in 1848.[citation needed] In 1857, Queensland's first lighthouse was built at Cape Moreton.[citation needed]...
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    Flinders Reef (category Moreton Island)
    Flinders Reef is a small isolated reef near Moreton Island, 5 kilometres (3 mi) north-east of Cape Moreton in South East Queensland, Australia. It has...
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    9 September 1873. Retrieved 21 January 2023 – via Trove. "Shipping - Cape Moreton". The Brisbane Courier. 20 July 1866. Retrieved 21 January 2023 – via...
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  • one of three Quandamooka peoples, and the traditional inhabitants of Moreton Island. The Ngugi language was called guwar, a term that, by extension...
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    Wales. The Cape Don was built in Newcastle by the NSW State Dockyard in 1962. She, along with her two identical sister ships Cape Moreton and Cape Pillar...
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    South Wales, Captain John Hunter, dated 14 July 1799 he wrote: At dusk Cape Moreton bore west two or three miles, and the highest glass house, whose peak...
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  • The Moreton Telegraph Office, located on the banks of the Wenlock River was part of the Cape York Telegraph Line and was completed in 1887. These days...
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  • Smith's Rock, which lies about two nautical miles (4 km) north-east of Cape Moreton, and sank on 24 February 1894. The remains of the ship now lie upright...
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  • tonnes) of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, off the coast from Cape Moreton. 100,000 litres of oil washed up on the coasts of Queensland resulting...
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  • additional specimens from Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Cape Moreton, Queensland. It has been reported from Vanuatu and Sulawesi. This nudibranch...
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    The Artemisia was the first immigrant ship to arrive in Moreton Bay bringing the first assisted free settlers from England. She was a barquentine of 492...
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    during the weekend of 12–13 December 2009. The initial search area off Cape Moreton covered 1,365 square kilometres (527 sq mi), the search team being given...
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    from Brisbane to Cape Moreton, Double Island Point, Sandy Cape, Bustard Head, Cape Capricorn, Flat Top Island, Cape Bowling Green, Cape Cleveland, Cooktown...
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    in 1868, it is the second-oldest lightstation in the state, following Cape Moreton Light, and the first to be built in Queensland after its formation in...
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    had been torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-177, south east of Cape Moreton, near Brisbane. Later it escorted LST's to Woodlark Island for an unopposed...
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  • Cape York Musgrave Coen Moreton Paterson The Cape York Telegraph Line was a telegraph line built on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. It...
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    Fort Cowan Cowan (category Moreton Island)
    to guide vessels through the passages of Moreton Bay. This was followed by the building of the Cape Moreton Lighthouse in 1857, at the northerly tip of...
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    Ocean; occurring along the east coast of Australia from Flinders Reef off Cape Moreton in Queensland to Eden in southern New South Wales. The species can also...
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    coastline. At the time the only lighthouse which existed was Cape Moreton Light at Cape Moreton by the New South Wales Government in 1857. By 1859, Maryborough...
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    encountered heavy weather after leaving Townsville and she was brought inside Cape Moreton to allow loose bolts to be checked and tightened. The fixings on the...
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  • and Morton (now Moreton Island) islands, the Glass House Mountains, Double Island Point, Wide Bay, Hervey Bay and the Great Sandy Cape, now called Fraser...
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    waters around Moreton Island. On Moreton Island, 290 people worked to clean up the oil, with most focusing on Middle Creek and Cape Moreton. Even though...
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