Date: 28/03/2018 14:04:21
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1205449
Subject: Mud Island and its macabre history

Something for those who have the misfortune to live in Brisbane, but take some pleasure, it has always been like that.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/recognition-for-gruesome-mud-island-history-moreton-bay/9592130

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Date: 28/03/2018 14:06:03
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1205450
Subject: re: Mud Island and its macabre history

PermeateFree said:


Something for those who have the misfortune to live in Brisbane, but take some pleasure, it has always been like that.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/recognition-for-gruesome-mud-island-history-moreton-bay/9592130

They knew how to name things back then: Mud Island.

These days, someone would probably dress it up as ‘Castaway’s Paradise’ or some such.

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Date: 28/03/2018 15:40:03
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1205460
Subject: re: Mud Island and its macabre history

captain_spalding said:


PermeateFree said:

Something for those who have the misfortune to live in Brisbane, but take some pleasure, it has always been like that.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/recognition-for-gruesome-mud-island-history-moreton-bay/9592130

They knew how to name things back then: Mud Island.

These days, someone would probably dress it up as ‘Castaway’s Paradise’ or some such.

Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about Mud Islands in Port Phillip Bay. It doesn’t have a gruesome history so far as I know. “The isolation of the islands provides protection from predators and makes them an ideal sanctuary for breeding seabirds, notably the five and a half thousand white-faced storm-petrels which, during summer, lay their eggs in burrows in the loose sand”.

According to Wikipedia, there isn’t a Mud Island in Moreton Bay. Trying again. Not a heck of a lot of web information about it.

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Date: 28/03/2018 16:09:34
From: Michael V
ID: 1205466
Subject: re: Mud Island and its macabre history

mollwollfumble said:


captain_spalding said:

PermeateFree said:

Something for those who have the misfortune to live in Brisbane, but take some pleasure, it has always been like that.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-28/recognition-for-gruesome-mud-island-history-moreton-bay/9592130

They knew how to name things back then: Mud Island.

These days, someone would probably dress it up as ‘Castaway’s Paradise’ or some such.

Oh, I thought this thread was going to be about Mud Islands in Port Phillip Bay. It doesn’t have a gruesome history so far as I know. “The isolation of the islands provides protection from predators and makes them an ideal sanctuary for breeding seabirds, notably the five and a half thousand white-faced storm-petrels which, during summer, lay their eggs in burrows in the loose sand”.

According to Wikipedia, there isn’t a Mud Island in Moreton Bay. Trying again. Not a heck of a lot of web information about it.

Well, no. There isn’t an entry in Wikipedia about Mud Island in Moreton Bay. That is quite different. It certainly appears on google maps.

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