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North Stradbroke Island

Stradbroke Island was once just one island, and it was chosen as the site for a quarantine station for the rapidly growing free settlement around Brisbane. In 1850, the station opened at Dunwich, with the 40-something Queensland Surgeon-General, Dr David Ballow, being appointed to take up residence with his family and to care for the occasional contagious disease that might appear.

A few short weeks after opening, the quarantine station had to deal with a major outbreak of typhus on board the ship Emigrant, which was bringing free settlers eager to start a new life in a new land. The majority of people aboard came from Ireland and consisted of families trying to escape the ravages of the famine in Ireland caused by potato blight.

During the last leg of the voyage, typhus broke out on the ship, and by the time the Emigrant had reached Moreton Bay, 19 people were dead. More died as she lay at anchor and a further 26 people, including that most unfortunate of men, the Surgeon-General, died in the following weeks as the quarantine station staff struggled to cope with the tragedy.

Read how Stradbroke became two islands.

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	Arriving at Dunwich, North Stradbroke ... this is what those new settlers on the Emigrant missed ...
	View north-east from Dunwich (landward side of North Stradbroke Island) towards Peel Island and the mainland in the distance.
	The water is the most beautiful blue ... as you can see here.
	The gorge ... turtles frolic here ... see the next photo for proof I was there at the right time!
	See? A turtle! There were a couple of smaller ones playing closer to the sandy beach to the right of this photo, but you'll just have to take my word for that.
	Not a bad beach, eh?
	I can't help myself ... this is an arty-farty shot of the wave forming. Well, I thought it was lovely.
	And this is all the poor souls aboard the Emigrant (and some of those who cared for them at Dunwich quarantine station) ever saw of their new home ...

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