Historical Notes on Sweers Island
Compiled by Professor Peter Saenger
Centre for Coastal Management, UNE, Northern Rivers, Lismore, NSW.
This paper is also available, in somewhat improved format, at the
Burke Shire Council
site.
Contents:
Part 1: pp1-20
Part 2: pp21-40
Part 3: pp41-50
Annotations
Images:
Image of Investigator Tree
Map of Sweers Island
Landforms
Map of Sweers Island
Aboriginal Usage
Weather statistics
Related Paper:
Investigator Tree
by Peter Saenger
Links:
Landsborough Tree
and other Burketown historical images
Nicholson River Land Claim 1982
Charles Darwin and The Beagle
a list of resources
Beagles 3rd Voyage (Covington)
from Brightsparcs
Burketown & the Gulf
Gulf Fever from James Cook University
The Morning Glory
of the Gulf of Carpentaria
Abel Tasman
Prepared for the web by Russell White.
Reproduced with permission of the author.
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