Everything about Snapper Island Queensland totally explained
Snapper Island is an island at the mouth of the
Daintree River in
Queensland,
Australia, some 20 km north of
Port Douglas. It is administered by the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service as the
Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park.
Snapper Island is a popular tourise sea kayak destination.
Indigenous culture
The island is part of the traditional sea country of the
Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. It is a special place for which they feel strong and enduring responsibilities of custodianship. The Kuku Yalanji people hunt and fish around the island and traditionally manage the island's culture
Other history
In the early 1900s,
Jerry Doyle operated a
lime kiln on the island, fired by wood from the Daintree, ferried over on a vessel called the "Nellie".
Beche-de-mer (sea cucumbers) processing (boiling) may also have been undertaken here. There is evidence of remains of an early Chinese market garden on the island, the watercourse stonework of which is still visible today.
This island was a stopover by
George Elphinstone Dalrymple before he discovered the Daintee River.
(http://www.daintreecoast.com/daintree.htm)
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