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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

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by Iain McCalman


  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

  Darwin, Emma

  Darwin Medal

  Davenport, Charles B.

  David, Edgeworth

  Debbie

  Decaen, Charles-Mathieu-Isidore

  deep drilling

  deep-sea life

  Deeral, Eric

  Deeral, Erica

  Defoe, Daniel

  de Kerjean, Louis

  dengue fever

  de Quierós, Fernandes

  de Rougemont, Louis

  de Vaugondy, Robert

  de Vis, Charles

  diatoms

  Dickens, Charles

  Discosoma haddoni

  Discosoma kenti

  Discovery Festival

  diving; Veron and

  Dix-sept ans chez les sauvages (Merland)

  Djiru clan

  Doodegab

  Dora

  Dorrigo

  Douglas, John

  Dowling, M. M. G.

  Dowoothoo

  D’Oyley, Captain

  D’Oyley, Charlotte

  D’Oyley, William “Uass”

  dragonflies

  drilling, of reefs; see also mining

  dry season

  Dry Tortugas

  dugong: eating of; endangering of; oil of

  Dulingbara

  Duncan, Davey

  Dunk Island; Aborigines and; artists’ colony on; as bird sanctuary; claimed by Banfield; food on; habitats of; Mayor on; pilgrims to; tourism and

  Duppa, Old

  Eastern Fields

  East India Company

  echinoderms

  ecology; disdain for; used by conservationists

  economic biologists, see marine industries

  “Economic Report” (Yonge)

  ecosystems, see ecology

  ecotourism

  Edinburgh University

  Edwards, Edward

  eels

  egrets

  Ellan Yannin

  Ellis, John

  Ellison Reef

  El Niño

  Eltham

  Embury, “Arch”

  Embury, Edwin Montague “Mont”

  Embury, “Uncle Tom”

  emotional intelligence

  Emre Turak Reef

  endangered species

  Endean, Robert

  Endeavour, see HMS Endeavour

  Endeavour Land

  Endeavour River

  Endeavour Strait

  Enewetak Atoll

  England: France and; imperialism of

  Enlightenment

  environmental education

  environmentalism, see conservationists

  environmental variation, see taxonomy: questioning of

  Erroob Island

  ethnography, anthropology vs.; see also Aborigines; indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders

  eucalyptus forests

  European/Aboriginal relations see under Aborigines

  Evans, Raymond

  Evans Bay

  Evening News

  evolution; of corals

  exploitation: of labor; of marine resources

  extinction: of birds; GBR threatened with; previous

  Falling Star Hole

  Family group

  Fantome (ship)

  faunal boundary lines

  Faust (Goethe)

  Favia

  Fenton, Arthur

  fertilizer: effects on reef of; reef used for

  Field, The

  Fiji

  firestick farming

  fish; oil spills and; poisonous; in reef ecosystem

  fishing; commercial; conflict over; by contemporary Aborigines; with nets; with spears

  Fitzroy, Robert

  Fletcher, Harold

  Flinders, Ann

  Flinders, Matthew; Aborigines and; accomplishments of; background of; Cook outdone by; dilemma of; inner passage navigated by; mission of; naming by; post-Australia difficulties of; readers of; Torres Straight navigated by

  Flinders, Samuel

  Flinders Passage

  Florida

  Flotsam and Jetsam

  Flower, William

  Fly

  Foelsche, Paul

  Foley, Fiona

  foraging

  Foraminifera

  Forsters

  fothering

  France: British rivalry with; imperialism of; Pelletier’s return to

  Fraser, Eliza; adaptations of story of; background of; capture of; public response to; return to England by

  Fraser, James

  Fraser, Jane

  Fraser Island

  Frazer, Joseph

  frontier expansion, see Aborigines: displacement of; settlement, European

  fruit pigeons

  fruits

  Funafuti

  Gabriel

  Gallipoli

  Gamay Warra clan

  Gameena

  Gardiner, J. Stanley

  gas industry;

  GBRC see Great Barrier Reef Committee

  Geddes, Patrick

  gender roles: of British; of Kaurareg; of Wanthaala

  genetics

  genocide

  geology, of reefs, see reef formation

  George III (king)

  Georges, George

  Geraldton

  ghost people

  Gia people

  giant manta rays

  Gibson, Bruce

  Gienow

  Gilmartin, Red

  Giom, see Thompson, Barbara

  Girton College

  glacial melt

  Gladstone

  glass eel

  Glenelg, Lord

  glider possums

  global warming, see climate change

  Glynne, Mary P.

  Goals and Paths (Haeckel)

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Golding, Bertha, see Banfield, Bertha Golding

  goldlip oysters

  gold rush

  Gondwanaland

  goniastrae

  Good, Peter

  Gorton, John

  granite

  Grassy Hill

  Gray, Asa

  Gray, George

  Great Barrier Reef; age of; author’s connection to; beauty of; biodiversity of; dangers of; degradation of; ecosystems of; inner passage of; as labyrinth; naming of; outer Barrier of; ownership of; as park; perceptions of; potential extinction of; preservation of; resilience of; resources of, see marine industries; scientific observation of; shipwrecks in; size of; surveying of; as wonder of the world

  Great Barrier Reef, The (Bennett)

  Great Barrier Reef Committee; as anticonservationist; founding of

  Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority; need for; size codified by

  Great Barrier Reef of Australia: Its Products and Potentialities (Saville-Kent); as inspiration
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  Great Sandy Isle

  Green, Charles

  Greene, Alexander

  greenhouse gases

  Green Island

  Gregory, Augustus

  Gregory, Edmund

  Griffin

  Griffith, Samuel

  Grin, Henri Louis

  grouper

  guano miners

  Guarang Guarang clan

  Gudang people

  Gulf Country

  Gulf of Carpentaria

  Gulf of Florida

  Gumakudin clan

  Gunage

  Gurrgiya Gunggandji clan

  Gurugulu Gunggandji clan

  Guugu Yimithirr people

  Haddon, Alfred Cort

  Haeckel, Ernst

  Halfway Island

  Hall, Bill

  Harold Holt Commemorative Marine Reserves

  Harrier (ship)

  Harvard; Museum of Comparative Zoology at

  Hatch

  Hawaii

  Hawkesworth, John passim

  hawksbill turtle

  Haycock Island

  Hayman Island Biological Station

  Heatwole, Harold

  Hedley, Charles

  Hegerl, Eddie

  Henslow, John

  Herald

  Herbert river region

  hermatypic corals, see corals; reefs

  Heron Island

  Hervey Bay

  Hideaway Resort

  Hinchinbrook

  historiography

  HMS Beagle

  HMS Bramble

  HMS Challenger

  HMS Endeavour; food for crew of; repairs to; replica of

  HMS Fly

  HMS Investigator; damage to; health of crew on; specialists aboard

  HMS Isabella

  HMS Meander

  HMS Myrmidon

  HMS Rattlesnake

  HMS Tigris

  Hobart

  Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove

  Holothuria

  Holt, Harold

  Holt, Zara

  honey

  Hope Island

  Hope Vale

  Hopkins, Thomas Hollis

  Hornsby, Alberta Gibson

  Horwitz, Tony

  Horseshoe Reef

  Houtman Abrolhos islands

  Hunter, John

  hunter-gatherers, see foraging; fishing; hunting

  hunting; for birds; for dugong; as men’s work; for turtles

  Huxley, Thomas: clout of; as Darwin’s disciple; on the Rattlesnake

  Hyatt, Alpheus

  Hyatt, Harriet

  hydrogen bombs

  ice ages

  Imperial College

  imperialism; see also under Aborigines; British Empire

  Ince

  Indian Ocean, routes to Pacific Ocean from

  indigenous peoples: conservation and; differences among; offensive acts against; relationships between; respect for; stereotyping of; see also Aborigines; Torres Strait Islanders

  individualism

  Indonesian corals

  infusoria

  initiation ceremonies

  Injinoo Land Trust

  Innisfail

  International Coral Reef Symposium

  International Society for Reef Studies

  international trade, see shipping routes

  International Zoological Congress

  Investigator, see HMS Investigator

  Iredale, Tom

  Ireland

  Ireland, John “Wak”

  Isabella (ship)

  Islanders, see Torres Strait Islanders

  Island of Lies (Coote)

  islands; Europeans living on; formation of

  “Is the Great Barrier Reef on Death Row” (Veron)

  James Cook University

  Japan, pearling and

  Japex

  Jardine, Bootles

  Jardine, Frank

  Jardine, John

  Jardine, Sania Solia

  JCU (James Cook University)

  jellyfish

  Jenny

  Jinny

  John Bell (ship)

  John Elder (ship)

  Johnson, Eveline Kent

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Jones, Steve

  Jorgensen, Justus

  journalism: Banfield and; bribery and; Cambridge expedition and; sensationalist

  Jukes, Joseph Beete; accomplishments of; background of; indigenous peoples and; imperialism of; mission of; romanticism of; scientific observation by

  Jura people

  Kabi Kabi

  kangaroo

  Kangaroo Point

  Karkynjib Wombil Moony, see Morrill, James

  Kaurareg people; boats of; children of; death and; food of; gender roles of; genocide of; and other groups; Thompson’s status among

  Kaye, Ruth Emilie; childhood of; journey to Australia by; murder by; post-prison life of

  Keeling atolls

  Kelly, Geoff

  Kelly, Thomas

  Kennedy District

  Kenney, John

  Kent, Acland

  Kent, Constance, see Kaye, Ruth Emilie

  Kent, Edward

  Kent, Elizabeth Bennett

  Kent, Eveline

  Kent, Florence

  Kent, Francis Savill

  Kent, Mary Amelia

  Kent, Mary Ann (William’s mother)

  Kent, Mary Ann Livesey (William’s wife)

  Kent, Mary Drewe Pratt

  Kent, Samuel

  Kent, William, see Saville-Kent, William

  Keppel Bay

  Key West

  King, Governor

  King’s College

  Kirby (boat)

  Kirk, Susi

  krill

  Kropotkin, Peter

  K-T extinction

  Kulkalaig

  Kupang

  Ku-ring-gai Chase reserve

  Kuuku Yulanji

  Kyee Mareeni (boat)

  labor: Aboriginal; union

  Labor Party

  Ladd, Harry

  Lady Elliot Island

  Lady Nelson (ship); damage to

  lagoons

  Land Act of 1860

  land rights, of Aborigines

  Lark Passage

  Last Leaves from Dunk Island (Banfield)

  Lawson, Henry

  Leclerc, Georges-Louis

  Leopold, Aldo

  Lever Pacific Plantations Company

  Lewis, Captain M.

  Liberals

  Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The (Sterne)

  limestone

  Littoral Society

  Livesey, Mary Ann

  Livingstone, Arthur

  Lizard Island

  lizards

  Lloyd Bay

  lobsters

  Lockhart River

  Lockhart River Art Gang

  Loggerhead Key

  London Natural History Museum

  Long Reef

  Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien)

  Louisiade Archipelago

  Low Isles; laboratory on

  Luana (boat)

  lunar phases

  Lyman, Theo

  Maademan

  Mabileau, Louise

  Mabo case

  Macfarlane, Robert

  MacGillivray, John “Jock”

  MacGillivray, William

  Mackay

  Mackenzie, Kirsty

  Madagascar

  Madame Tussaud’s

  Madrepore; see also corals; reefs

  Major, James

  malaria

  Maldives

  Maldon

  Mammoos

  Man and Nature (Marsh)

  mangroves

  mantis shrimp

  Manton, Sidnie

  Manu

  Manual of the Infusoria, A (Saville-Kent)

  mapping, see surveying

  Marco Polo (ship)

  marine biology; equipment for; ge
ology vs.; zoology and; see also corals; reefs

  marine industries; as exploitative; science and; see also pearling

  marki; marriage and

  Marsh, George Perkins

  Marshall, Sheina

  Marshall Islands

  Marten, Maria

  Martha Ridgway (ship)

  Mather, Patricia

  Mauritius, Flinders imprisonment on

  Mayoral Court of Inquiry

  Mayor, Alfred; accomplishments of; Agassiz and; background of; on Darwin; journeys to GBR by; marriage of

  Mayor, Harriet Hyatt

  McArthur, Kathleen

  McCalman, Andrew

  McIlwraith, Thomas

  McKinney, Jack

  McMichael, Don

  McNamee Creek

  McNeill, Frank

  MCZ (Museum of Comparative Zoology)

  Meander (ship)

  meandrina

  meditation

  medusae

  Melanesian tribesmen

  Melbourne Herald

  Melville, Harden Sidney “Griffin”

  Meredith, Louisa Ann

  Mer Island

  Merland, Constant

  metallic starlings

  meteors

  methane

  Mickie

  Microscopical Society

  Mikhaylov, Pavel

  Millepora

  Miller, Dean

  Millport marine research station

  Milton, John

  mining: of Ellison Reef; for oil and gas

  missionaries

  Mission Bay

  Mission Beach Aboriginal Settlement

  mist

  Mitchell, David

  molluscs; see also pearling

  Monkhouse, Jonathan

  Monkman, Kitty

  Monkman, Noel

  monsoons

  Montsalvat

  Moony, Karkynjib Wombil, see Morrill, James

  Moore, David

  Moorhouse, Frank

  Moreton Bay

  Morning Advertiser

  Morning Post

  Morrill, James: background of; with Bindal; colonizers and; injuries to; post-Bindal life of; shipwreck of

  Morris, William

  Mossman, Harry

  Mountains of the Mind (Macfarlane)

  Mount Elliot

  Mount Ernest

  Mount Tamborine

  Muralag

  Murray, John (Lady Nelson captain)

  Murray, John (Scottish marine scientist)

  Murray group

  Murray Island

  Murrells, Jem, see Morrill, James

  Museum of Comparative Zoology

  mushroom corals

  Myrmidon (ship)

  Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe)

  Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (Dickens)

  My Tropic Isle (Banfield)

  Nagi

  Naiga, Alick

  Napier, S. Elliott

  Narrative of the Melancholy Shipwreck of the Charles Eaton (Wemyss)

  Narrative of the Melancholy Wreck of the Charles Eaton (Curtis)

  Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly (Jukes)

  Nathan, Matthew

  National Geographic

  Native Title Act 1993

  Natricidiae kentii

  natural history museums; see also Australian Museum; Museum of Comparative Zoology

  Naturalist in Australia, The (Saville-Kent)

  natural selection, see evolution

  Nature

  nature writing

  Navigator (ship)

  Nellie

 

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