Lizard Island
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Lizard Island, also known as Jiigurru or Dyiigurra, is an island on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, 1,624 kilometres northwest of Brisbane. It is part of the Lizard Island Group that
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Lizard Island beach
Endeavour replica in Cooktown harbour
Portrait of Mary Beatrice Watson
Mary Watson (pioneer)
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Mary Beatrice Watson, was an Australian folk heroine in Queensland. She died aged 21 on a small island of the northern Great Barrier Reef with her son and a servant, after escaping an attack on Lizard
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…had been bêche-de-mer vessels operating there from Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong for 15 years prior. In 1879, Captain Robert Watson with his wife Mary Watson, two servants and baby son, modified an abandoned cottage left on the island by the crew of the Julia Percy. The ruins are still visible. Captain Watson…
Mary Watson's diary
Grave of Mrs Watson at the Cooktown Cemetery, 1986
Mrs. Watsons Memorial at Cooktown, circa 1906