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The usual suspects passed by Gladstone in the early years of contact with Europeans. Cook sailed past, and Flinders did likewise in 1803. At least Flinders didn’t engage in any hat-related misadventures with the indigenous people this time. He’d learned his lesson at Bribie. Oxley poked around there in 1823, but found the harbour andContinue reading “The early days of Gladstone, in colour.”