SS Yongala, c1906. Postcard Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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Despite its beauty the Queensland coast is renowned as a dangerous place for shipping, with hundreds of vessels coming to grief on coral reefs and rocky shores over the last 200 years.

Five narratives retell episodes of Queensland history to reinstate knowledges that have been buried in police and government files, as well as documents put together by explorers, stockme

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