1606 Luis Vaez de Torres was on his way to Manila when bad weather forced him to take a detour below Papua New Guinea. On his way, he charted the coastline, stopped for provisions, claimed everything he saw for Spain and fought with indigenous people of the Islands, taking a small sample of the furiousContinue reading “Luis Vaez de Torres charts the straits – August 30 1606”
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The Northern Murderers – Gleeson and Moncaro.
George Gleeson and William Leonardo Moncado were executed together at the Brisbane Gaol on Monday, October 24, 1892. They had both been convicted and sentenced to death at the Supreme Court’s Cooktown sittings in north Queensland a mere month before. George Gleeson George Gleeson (pictured) was a cook at a pearling station on Prince of Wales Island, which was offContinue reading “The Northern Murderers – Gleeson and Moncaro.”
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