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Letters Patent were issued by the British Government in 1872 creating a new colony which encompassed all islands within a 60 nautical mile radius of the coast of Queensland. In 1872, the Queensland Government sought to extend its jurisdiction and requested the support of the British Government. With an increasing number of ships passing through Torres Strait every year, the government sought a new location for a settlement with a better harbour.
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The government buildings were being destroyed by white ants and strong tidal currents presented difficulties for mooring and docking ships. īy the early 1870s, the Queensland Government had concluded that Somerset was an unsuitable location for a settlement. The Police Magistrate at Somerset accompanied by Native Police troopers conducted raids on Prince of Wales Island and the adjacent Wednesday Island and a number of the islanders were killed. The Aboriginal people of the island were blamed for the killings and retaliatory action was organised by the authorities at Somerset. In April 1869, 28 crew members of the cutter Sperwer were murdered after the ship anchored off Prince of Wales Island (Muralug Island). ĭue to the high cost of maintaining the Royal Marines at Somerset, they were returned to Britain in 1867 and were replaced by Queensland police officers accompanied by three Native Police troopers.
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A report written by John Jardine in 1865 stated that two Marines had been seriously wounded in the conflict but that Aboriginal aggression had been ‘met with severe and just punishment’. īefore long there was conflict between the Royal Marines and the local Aboriginal people. This group included John Jardine (who had been appointed the Police Magistrate in charge of the settlement) and a detachment of 22 Royal Marines. In August 1864, the British Royal Navy ship the Salamander and the supply ship Golden Eagle landed the men and supplies at Somerset. The British and Queensland governments agreed on a joint venture whereby the British would supply a Royal Navy ship to establish and resupply the settlement and the Queensland Government would pay the cost of a contingent of Royal Marines to be stationed there for protection. Somerset was established in response to the Queensland colonial government’s wish for a major trading port in the north and the British government’s need to establish a strategic outpost to guard the Torres Strait, which was becoming an increasingly important trade route, linking the Pacific and Indian oceans. The Aboriginal people of Cape York Peninsula and the adjacent islands had little contact with Europeans until the settlement of Somerset was established on the eastern tip of Cape York in 1864. Thursday Island is often referred to simply as ‘TI’. Admiralty maps made in 1855 however, reversed the order of the islands as set down by Captain Stanley. Waibene acquired the name ‘Thursday Island’ in 1848 when Captain Stanley, who was in charge of HMS Rattlesnake recorded the names of three islands in the area Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Islands. Australian and state government agencies and other services to the region are primarily based on Thursday Island. Thursday Island acts as the commercial, transport and administrative hub for 20 communities spread across a geographical area spanning approximately 48,000 square kilometres. For thousands of years the Kaurareg followed traditional patterns of hunting, fishing and agriculture and maintained close cultural and trading ties with the Aboriginal groups of the Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York. The Kaurareg people refer to Thursday Island as ‘Waibene’. Historical records indicate that the Kaurareg Aboriginal people are the Traditional Owners for this area however there are no active Native Title claims over Thursday Island. Thursday Island is situated approximately 40km from the mainland of Australia and is part of the ‘Prince of Wales’ island group or ‘inner Islands’ of the Torres Strait.
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