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Maryborough and Its History: Placing the Maryborough Environment in Historical Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2012

Elaine Brown
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Let me begin by acknowledging the Aboriginal presence in the district around Maryborough. The earliest European officials named this then-unknown area the Wide Bay, after the curving mainland between Fraser Island and Double Island Point that had been named ‘Wide Bay’ by Captain James Cook as the Endeavour sailed north along the coast in 1770.

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Queensland Review , Volume 19 , Special Issue 1: “It's all about the Mary”: A Garden History of Maryborough , June 2012 , pp. 6 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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1 Langevad, Gerry, trans., Some Original Views Around Kilcoy. Book 1: The Aboriginal Perspective, Queensland Ethnological Transcripts (Brisbane: Archaeology Branch, 1982)Google Scholar.

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8 Ian McConachie, personal comment, 2011.

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