The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (54 page)

Finally I would like to acknowledge my intellectual debts to those historians on whose work I have depended. We all stand on the shoulders of our predecessors and none more so than me. The late James and Margarita Bowen are the great pioneers of Barrier Reef history, and I have followed in their wake. Bill Gammage’s extraordinary new book
The Biggest Estate on Earth
taught me to understand Indigenous ecologies in wholly new ways. Reading Stephanie Anderson’s wonderful translation and study of the life of Narcisse Pelletier—enriched by the anthropological expertise of Athol Chase—was how I came to know about Anco, the most fascinating Reef castaway of all. I thank Stephanie for her generosity in sharing her knowledge and insight with me.

Likewise I could not have written about early Australian marine and maritime history without the writings of Alan Frost and John Gascoigne; about James Cook and Joseph Banks without the great texts of J. C. Beaglehole; about Eliza Fraser without Kay Schaffer and Jim Davidson; about Barbara Thompson without Ray Warren’s research and D. R. Moore’s marvelous transcripts and anthropological analyses; about William Saville-Kent without the research of A. J. Harrison, Kate Summerscale, and Noreen Kyle; and about Alex Agassiz and Alfred Mayor without the prior works of D. Dobbs, L. D. Stephens, and D. R. Calder. Phoebe Ford located, copied, and provided me with valuable documents from the Busst papers; and Emma Dortins allowed me to quote from her recent PhD thesis, which contains important original information on the castaway James Morrill.

My grasp of the science and ecology of coral reefs and corals—such as it is—would have been far worse without Charlie Veron’s brilliant
A Reef in Time
, and the sparkling wit and erudition of the University College London geneticist and science writer Steve Jones. And nobody can write about northern Australian Aboriginal history without immersing themselves in the writings of Henry Reynolds, or hope to understand the early history and culture of the Torres Strait without the work of Jeremy Beckett. My thanks to you all.

INDEX

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“GBR” refers to the Great Barrier Reef.

Aberdeen

Aborigines: agriculture by; alleged cannibalism of; art by; Banfield and; contemporary; conversion of; Cook and; displacement of; Europeans adopted by; Europeans aided by; Europeans captured by; Europeans in conflict with; Europeans’ friendships with; Europeans’ impressions of; Europeans passing as; Europeans’ reconciliation with; Flinders and; food and; Fraser and; GBR and; genocide of; history and; Jukes and; as laborers for Europeans; rights to land and sea of; shelters of; slander of; stewardship of nature by; Torres Strait Islanders and; trade and; water collection by; Wright on;
see also
indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders;
specific clans

Abridge

Abrolhos Reefs

Aburda

ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation)

acidification

Acropora

Actiniaria

Adams, James

Adolphus Island

adoption, of Europeans by indigenous people

“Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, The”

Advocate

Agassiz, Alex; background of; character of; Darwin and; father of; in GBR; legacy of; Mayor and; successor of; theory of; wealth of; wife of

Agassiz, Cecile

Agassiz, Louis

Age of the Anthropocene

agriculture

AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science)

Albany Passage

alcohol

Alcyonaria

Alfred Hospital

algae; symbiosis with coral

Allan, Joyce

Allen, John

Allen, W. H.

America

Amglo,
see
Pelletier, Narcisse

Ampol

Anco,
see
Pelletier, Narcisse

Anderson, Stephanie

Andrews, Ernest

anemones

Anglican mission

Animals and Bird Act of 1921

animals: eating of,
see
fishing; hunting; diversity of,
see
biodiversity;
see also specific animals

anthropology, race and;
see also
Aborigines; indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders

aquariums

Ararat

Argyll, Duke of

Arnold, Matthew

arrow worms

art; science and;
see also
artists aboard ships; photography

artificial cultivation: of oysters; of pearls

artists aboard ships

artists’ colonies

astraea

Atarrka

Attenborough, David

Aureed Island

Australia; centennials of; circumnavigation of; England’s claiming of; fabrications about; GBR’s ownership and; naming of; questioning history of; zoology in

Australian bee-eater

Australian Conservation Foundation

Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time

Australian Imperial Force

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Australian Museum

Australian Seashores
(Bennett et al.)

Australian, The

Authentic and Faithful History of the Mysterious Murder of Maria Marten
(Curtis)

Back, Ken

Badtjala

Badu Island

Badu people

Bage, Freda

Baily

Baki

Balfour Fellowship

Ballantyne, R. M.

Bama

Bandjin clan

Banfield, Bertha Golding passim; background of; health of; philosophy of

Banfield, Edmund James “Ted”; Aborigines and; background of; as beachcomber; books by; Dunk Island settled by; first Dunk Island visit by; health of; as imperialist; inspiration for; land owned by; legacy of; money and; newspaper career of; in Townsville

Banfield, Eliza

Banfield, Harry

Banfield, Jabez Walter

Banks, Joseph passim; coral and; Flinders and; foraging by

Barker College

Barrett, Charles

Barrier Reef lagoons

barrier reefs, naming of;
see also
reef formation; reefs

Barrow, John

Bath

Battery Point

Batt Reef

Bauer, Ferdinand

Baxter, John

Bayley, William

beachcombers

Beagle
(ship)

Beaglehole, J. C.

bêche-de-mer

Bedarra Island

bee-eaters

bees

Belidi

Bell, Hugh

Bendigo

Bennett, Elizabeth

Bennett, Isobel “Issie”

Berlin

Bernard, Henry

Bicton

Big Shadow
(boat)

Bindal clan

Bingil Bay

biodiversity; of coral; of reefs; regional

birds: Dunk Island sanctuary for; on Hayman; hunting for; oil spills and

Birri-Gubba language

Bjelke-Peterson, Joh

Blackman, Barbara

Blackwood, Francis

Blake, Chris

bleaching, of corals

Bligh, William

Blue Lagoon, The
(Stacpoole)

Bluett, Mike

Boardman, Bill

body modification

bommies

Bongaree

Booby Island

boomerangs

boree

Boroto

Botany Bay

Bounty
(ship)

Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Bowen

Bowen, George

Bowen, James

Bowen, Margarita

Boydang Island

Bramble

Brammo Bay passim; naming of

Breaksea Spit

Brierly, Oswald; background of; drawings by; interviews by; language and; post-
Rattlesnake
life of

Brisbane

Brisbane Courier

bristle worms

British-Aboriginal resource wars;
see also
Aborigines: Europeans in conflict with; Aborigines: rights to land and sea of

British Admiralty

British Association for the Advancement of Science

British Empire: Australia claimed for; trade in;
see also
Aborigines: displacement of

British India and Australian Steam Navigation Company

British Museum

British Reef Committee

Broad Sound

Broca, Paul

Brocken

Brockett, William

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

Brown, Charles

Brown, Robert

brown-winged tern

Buchanan, Gwynneth

Bungaree

bungwa
root

Bunker Island

Burdekin river region

Burdon-Jones, Cyril

Burke, Edmund

Burstall, Tim

Busst, Alison “Ali”

Busst, John passim; background of; Ellison Reef and; friendship with Webb and Wright of; marine park and; petroleum industry and; trade unions and;

Bustard Bay

Butcher, Wayne

butterflies

button industry

By Land and Sea I Leave Ephemeral Spirit
(Foley)

Cairncross Islets

Cairns Argus

Cambridge expedition; Aboriginal servants for; background to; boat party of; cost of; difficulties of; equipment for; gender and; physiological group of; publications of; publicity for; shore party of; symbiosis and

Cambridge Gulf

Cambridge Review

Camm, Ronald

Campbell, W. D.

cannibalism, alleged

Cape Cleveland

Cape Direction

Cape Flattery

Cape Grafton

Cape Grenville

Cape Keppel

Cape Pallarenda

Cape Sidmouth

Cape Tribulation

Cape Upstart

Cape York

Capricornia group

carbonate rock

carbon dioxide

Cardwell

Carisbrook Castle
(ship)

Carnegie Institution of Washington

Carr, William

Carson, Rachel

Cary, Liz

Cave of Falling Stars

Cave of Swiftlets

cays, formation of

Central Indo-Pacific

Challenger
(ship)

Charles Eaton
(ship); public response to

Charlie

Chase, Athol

China

China Navigation Company

Chisholm, Alec

chromolithography

Church of England

clams, giant

Clare, Patricia

Clarke, Dodd

climate change: effects on reefs of; fatalism toward; reef formation and

Clipperton Atoll

Clump Point

Cnidaria

Cocos atolls

Coffs Harbor

Colahan, Colin

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Collaroy

Collins, Mrs.

colonialism: tactics of;
see also under
Aborigines; British Empire

Colonial Office

commensalism,
see
symbiosis

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization

communalism

community ecology

computer modeling

Confessions of a Beachcomber
,
The
(Banfield); publication of

Congress of Entomology

Congress of the Australian Advancement of Science

Connolly family

“Conservation as a Concept” (Wright)

conservationists; ecology and; Ellison Reef campaign of; extinction and; public opinion of; stewardship ethic of; successes of; tourism and

Coobee Cotanyou

Cook Islands

Cook, James; Aborigines and; background of; dilemma of; Flinders’ rivalry with; ignorance of; mapping by; marooning of; mission of; popularization of; reef navigated by; reenactment of voyage of

Cook’s Look

Cooktown

Coonanglebah

cooperation

Coote, Gillian

copepods

Coral Battlefield
(Wright)

Coral Geographic

Coral Island, The
(Ballantyne)

coral islands,
see
corals; islands;
specific islands

Corallian Sea

coralline limestone

Coral Reef Symposium

corals: age of; algae and; Banfield on; beauty of; bleaching of; continua of; Darwin on; death of; deep drilling of; diversity of; energy for; Flinders on; growth rates of; Jukes on; living; photography of; polyps of; reef building by,
see
reef formation; Saville-Kent on; scientific priorities for study of; sediment and; spawning by; taxonomy of; temperature and; tropical; Veron on;
see also
reefs

Coral Sea

Corals in Space and Time
(Veron)

Corals of the World
(Veron)

Coral Triangle

Corder, William

Cornell University

Corralis, Joseph

Country Party

Courier, The

Cowan, John

crabs

creationism

Crescent Reef

Cretaceous period

Crimean War

crime writing

crown-of-thorns starfish

Croydon
(ship); equipment on

Crusoe, Robinson

CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Cumberland Islands

currents, coral evolution and

Curtis, John “James”; background of; on
Charles Eaton
; on Fraser

Cyclone Larry

cyclones; on Dunk Island; on Low Isles; reefs and

Cyclone Yasi

Dabah, Andy

Dabah, Gracie

Daily Mail

Daintree
(boat)

Dalrymple, George Elphinstone

Daly, Reginald

Dana, James Dwight

Darge, Robert “Big Bob”

Darwin (place)

Darwin, Annie

Darwin, Charles; Agassiz’s quest to disprove; disciples of,
see
Haeckel, Huxley; evolution and; family of; Flinders and; subsidence theory of; Veron compared to