Molle Islands
| Molle Islands | ||
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| Waters | Coral sea | |
| archipelago | Whitsunday Islands | |
| Geographical location | 20 ° 18 ′ S , 148 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 8th | |
Molle Islands is a group of eight islands in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area off Queensland , Australia . It consists of Long Island , Daydream Island (formerly: West Molle Island), Denman Island, Goat Island, Mid Molle Island, North Molle Island, Planton Island and South Molle Island .
The islands are now generally a subset of the Whitsunday Islands summarized (Whitsunday Islands). Officially they are part of the Cumberland Islands , which James Cook discovered in 1770 and named so.
location
The archipelago is not far from the coast of Australia near the tourist town of Airlie Beach . Of the eight islands, three are inhabited, Daydream Island, South Molle Island and Long Island.
history
The Molle Islands were formed as islands during an ice age when the polar ice melted and the land flooded, because they were previously part of the mainland.
The islands were an area of the Ngaro Aboriginal people for about 9,000 years . They were hunter-gatherers and lived nomadically by visiting or staying on islands for fishing or hunting and water intake. For example, on South Molle Island they made their stone tools. After the archipelago was discovered and settled by the Europeans, there were confrontations with the white colonialists who took possession of the land; thereby the Aborigines were displaced from their original habitat and the tribe exterminated.
The archipelago is named after Colonel George James Molle , who was Lieutenant Governor in New South Wales during the British colonial era . When in May 1815 Lieutenant Charles Jeffreys was on the way to Ceylon with the brig HMS Kangaroo , he landed in the area off Long Island and named the berth Port Molle . It was not until 1863 that the British Admiralty gave the name Molle Islands and later the individual islands were given the names they know today.
In the early 1920s, South Molle Island, North Molle Island, West Molle Island, Planton Island, Denman Island, Mid Molle Lisland, and Goat Island were owned by Henry G. Lamond. He was a successful author and lived with his family on South Molle Island from April 19, 1927. He sold West Molle Island to Major Paddy Lee Murray and North Molle Island to a certain Johnson from western Queensland. On April 19, 1937, he sold the Molles archipelago to the Bauer family, who built a hotel resort on South Molle Island. When Lamond's wife died in 1968, he went to Brisbane .
Tourist information
There are resort hotels on the three inhabited islands. Denman Island, Goat Island (goat island), Mid Molle Island, North Molle Island and Planton Island are uninhabited. The Molle Islands National Park is designated on the islands . You can camp on the uninhabited islands, for example on Denman Island.
The archipelago is located just off the Australian coast and can be reached from the nearby Shute Harbor by boat or from the inhabited islands by airplanes landing on water. There is also the possibility that ships from Hamilton Island or from Whitsunday Island transport tourists to the inhabited islands. The closest major location is Airlie Beach .
Web links
- Economic history of the Molle Islands
- Location map of the archipelago
- Video about the uninhabited Denman Isle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the website southmolleisland.com.au ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 23, 2010
