New Guinea
New Holland; mapping of; see also Australia
Newport
New Reformation
New South Wales: gold in; mapping of; naming of; settlement of; see also Australia
New Zealand
Ngulungbara
Nicholls, Aubrey
Nicklin, Frank
Night Island
Ningaloo
Noble, Rico
“noble savages”
Nolan, Sidney
Noonuccal, Oodgeroo
north Australia separatists
Northumberland group
Nuadji
Numa
Nuripai
nutmeg pigeons
octopuses
oil industry
oil spills
Old Aburda
Old Den
Old Duppa
Old Fields
Old Manu
Old Sallali
Old Seewai
On the Barrier Reef (Napier)
On the Origin of Species (Darwin)
Orpheus Island
Orr, A. P.
Otter, Charles
outer reef
Outzie
Ovens River
overfishing
Owen, Richard
oystercatchers
Oyster Cay
oysters; cultivation of
Pacific Ocean, routes to Indian Ocean from
Palmer River
Palm Island
Pama Malngkana
pandanus tree
Pandora (ship)
Pan-Pacific Science Congress
Papua New Guinea
Paradise Lost (Milton)
parasites
Paris
parrot fish
Patrick
Paterson, Bob
Peaqui
pearling
Pearl Shell and Bêche-de-Mer Fisheries Act of 1881
Pelletier, Narcisse; adoption of; background of; contemporary Uutaalnganu-speaking people and; drawing by; passing by; return to France by; shipwreck of
Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York (Anderson)
petroleum industry
Peyssonnel, Jean-André
Philippines
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Philp, Robert
photography: of coral; Saville-Kent and; science and; underwater
photosynthesis
physical anthropology
phytoplankton
pigeons; as endangered
Pinard, Emmanuel
pinna mollusc
Pitkethly, George
plagiarism
plankton
plant genetics
plovers
pneumonia
Podaga
Policeman (ship)
Pollock, E. F.
pollution
Popular Science Monthly
population ecology
Port Bowen
Port Curtis
Port Denison
Port Essington
Port Jackson
Potts, Frank A.
Prince of Wales Island
Prince of Wales passage
“Problems of the Great Barrier Reef, The” (Richards)
Providence (ship)
Purchas, Samuel
pygmy fish
Queensland; Department of Agriculture of; development mania in; GBR owned by; Littoral Society of; Mining Department of; Museum in; Royal Historical Society of; separatist movement in; settlement of; wildlife protection in
Queensland Trough
Quetta (ship)
Qui Qui
race, theories of
racism
Radcliffe, Ann
Raine Island
rain forests; conservation of; reefs’ interdependence with
Ramalees (ship)
rationality
Rattlesnake (ship)
Ravenscroft, Eliza Jane
reef formation; Agassiz’s theory of; algae and; Daly’s theory of; Darwin’s theory of
Reef in Time, A (Veron)
reefs: biodiversity of; destruction of; at night; origins of, see reef formation; productivity of; see also corals
reef science, trends in
Reine des Mers (ship)
Repulse Bay
research stations
reticulate evolution; evidence for
Richards, Henry Caselli
Rivendell
Road
rock art
Rockhampton
Rockingham Bay
rock lobsters
romanticism; Aborigines and; of author; of Banfield; of Busst; of Cambridge expedition; of escape artists; of Flinders; of Jukes; of Mayor; of Saville-Kent; of Webb; of Wright
root vegetables: cultivated; wild
Ross, Eliza Ann
Rossel Island
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowan, Ellis
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Society; of Queensland; of Tasmania; women in
Royal Yacht Squadron
Royal Zoological Society
Russell, Anna
Russell, Frederick
Russell, Gweneth
Sagittoidea
Saint-Gilles-sur-Vie
Salmon Commissioners
Sambo
Samoa
Sandbeach country
Sand Country Almanac, A (Leopold)
Sandy Cape
Santa Barbara
sardines
Sassy
Saturday Review
“Save the Reef” campaign
Saville-Kent, William; affairs of; aquariums of; books by; childhood of; coral and; discoveries of; family of; family murder of; GBR and; journeys to Australia by; oysters and; personality of; photography and; return to England by; in Tasmania
scarification
scavenging
science; art and; as anticonservationist; diving and; empiricism and; funding for; gender in; as interdisciplinary; photography and; priorities within; tourism and
Science
Scleractinia
Scleractinia of Eastern Australia (Veron)
Scotland Yard
Scotsman, The
Sculthorpe, Peter
scurvy
sea anemones
sea cucumbers
sea levels
sea rights, of Aborigines
sea snakes
seasons
sea urchins
seawater, chemical composition of
Selborne (White)
self-interest
Selkirk, Alexander
sensationalism
sensibility, cult of
sentiment
separatists
Seriatopora hystrix
settlement, European
Seven Years’ War
Sexton, Paul
sharks; endangering of
Sheepstation Creek
shells: over-collecting of; taxonomies of; uses for; see also pearling
Ship, The
shipping routes
Shipwrecked Orphans, The (Ireland)
Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle (Curtis)
shipwrecks; looting of
Shoalwater Bay
shrimp
Silent Spring (Carson)
Simon, George Eugène
simple life
Simpson, John
Skull Reef
skulls: collecting of; shaping of
Smith, G. C. “Boatswain”
snakes
socialism
Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
Solia, Sania
Solitary Islands
Somerset
South Seas
Specter of the Brocken
Spender, Percy
Spitfire (ship)
Stacpoole, Henry De Vere
Stafford-Smith, Mary
staghorn coral
&nbs
p; Stanley, Owen
Stanner, W. E. H.
starfish; damage to reef by
starlings
Stephens, Mr.
Stephenson, Anne
Stephenson, Thomas Alan
Sterne, Laurence
Stevenson, Robert Louis
stewardship, of nature
Stirling Castle (ship)
Stoddart, David
Strickland, Walter
Strong-tide Passage
Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, The (Darwin); see also Darwin, Charles: subsidence theory of
sublime
subsidence; Agassiz’s quest to disprove
Sudden Jerk, The (ship)
sugar industry
Sun
sunbirds
surveying; instruments for
Suzuki, David
Swain, William
Swain reefs
swiftlets
Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Technical College
Sydney Times
symbiosis; of coral and algae; varieties of
Synapta
synecology
syphilis
Talbot, Frank
Tarrka
Tasman, Abel
Tasmania
taxonomy; native; questioning of; role of in zoology
Taylor, Thomas Griffith
terns
terror, beauty and
T. Fisher Unwin
Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress
Thirsty Sound
Thomagugu
Thomas
Thompson, Barbara “Giom”; attempted kidnapping of; background of; Boroto and; children of; Kaurareg left by; language of; passing by; public response to; time with Kaurareg of
Thomson, Wyville
Thoreau, Henry David
Thursday Island
tides
tiger sharks
Tigris (ship)
Tijou
Times, The (London)
Toby
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Tom
Topinard, Paul
Torres Strait; Charles Eaton in; Flinders and; Fly in; Saville-Kent in; shipping routes through; Veron in
Torres Strait Islanders; Aborigines and; boats of; Europeans adopted by; European conflict with; European connections with; food and; in sugar industry; tribal elders among; westernization of
Torres Strait Route, The (Banfield)
Torrey Canyon (ship)
tourism; restrictions on
Townsville; Banfields in; institute of marine science in, see AIMS; separatist movement in
Townsville Daily Bulletin
Townsville Evening Star
Townsville University College
Tracey, Geoff
trade unions
trees
trepang
Tridacna
trochus; shells of
Tropic Days (Banfield)
Tsinan (ship)
tuberculosis
Tuesday Island
Tully region
Tupaia
Turtle Reef
turtles; Aboriginal stewardship of; endangerment of; fantasies about
type specimens
Uass
underwater photography
UNESCO
University of London
University of Melbourne
University of New England
University of Queensland
University of Sydney
Unwin, T. Fisher
Urdzanna
U.S. Geological Survey
Uutaalnganu-speaking people
Vanuatu
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland
Vereker, H. P. Foley
Veron, J. E. N. “Charlie”; background of; career choice of; corals and; Darwin and; diving by; on extinction; nickname of; publications of
Veron, Katie
Veron, Noni
Victoria
Virtue, George
Vivien Reef
volcanoes
Voyage to Terra Australis, A (Flinders)
Wain, Barry
Wak
Walden (Thoreau)
Walker, Jan
Walker, Kath
wallabies
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wamalag
Wanthaala people: body modification by; male pursuits of; Pelletier adopted by; region of; seniority among; spirituality and; tools of
Ward, Charles Melbourne “Mel”
Warrior Reef
Washington
waves
weapons
Webb, Len passim; ACF and; background of; Busst and Wright and; ecology and; epiphany of
Wednesday Island
Weenie
Wells, John W.
Wemyss, Thomas
Wesley College
Westall, William
West Australian
Western Australia
Western Pacific Warm Pool
wet season
Whicher, Jonathan
White, Gilbert
White, Patrick
white-rumped wood swallow
Whitlam, Gough
Whitley, Gilbert
Whitsunday region
Wickham’s River
Wide Bay
Wide World Magazine
wilderness; fear of; human need for
Wildlife
Wildlife Preservation Society; journal of
Willie
Willmett, Thankful
Wilson
Wistaria Reef channel
Within the Barrier (Banfield)
Women’s College
Wood, Noel
wood swallows
Woodworth, William “Little Billy”
woomera
World Heritage site designation
World War I
World War II
worms
WPSQ, see Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland
Wreck Reef
Wright, Judith passim; on Aborigines; ACF and; background of; Busst and Webb and; Ellison Reef and; WPSQ and; writings by
Yarrabah
Year on the Great Barrier Reef, A (Yonge)
Yegillies
Yonge, Charles “Maurice”; background of; book by; economic biology and; findings of; inspirations for; marriage of; symbiosis and
Yonge, Mattie
York Island
Youlden, Henry
Yurie
Zoe Bay
zoology, scope of
zooplankton
zooxanthellae
ALSO BY IAIN MCCALMAN
Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832 (editor)
Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840
A Note About the Author
Iain McCalman is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a historian, a social scientist, and an explorer. He is the author of Darwin’s Armada, The Last Alchemist, and Radical Underworld. He is a professor of history at the University of Sydney.
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McCalman, Iain.
The reef: a passionate history: the Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to climate change / Iain McCalman. — First American edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-24819-2 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-71170-2 (ebook)
1. Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)—History. 2. Natural history—Australia—Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) I. Title.
DU280 . G68 M44 2014
994.3—dc23
2013040660
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