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Moai, commonly known as "Easter Island Heads".
These were one of the first things I built as part of my islanders MOC a few months ago.
Feast Preparation day for the Islanders!
Overview picture..
Eurobricks Pillage the Village: Out For Blood Edition Contest Entry.
Britten-Norman BN-2B-20 Islander G CKYC for Channel Islands Air Search on static display at the Daedalus D-Day 75 event at Solent Airport, I was informed from a very reliable source that this aircraft is the first civilian Islander assembled from parts at Lee-on-Solent within the new BN hangar, previous builds have been for the military Defender.
The annual Mount Hagen Sing Sing brings out a mind-boggling array of unique tribal dance troupes.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/tribal-expressions-pr...
Innisfail, a rural township of about 8250 people, is 70 km south of Cairns. It is at the junction of the North and South Johnstone Rivers, about four kilometres from the ocean, in the Johnstone Shire. Innisfail has long been dependent on migrant and indentured labour, from South Sea Islanders (then known as Kanakas) in the late nineteenth century to Italians in the twentieth century. With an economy based primarily on sugar and bananas, it has often suffered massive cyclone damage, especially in 1918 and 2006. It owes its art deco buildings to the rebuilding after the 1918 cyclone.
Following the wreck of a brig on Bramble Reef, the party searching for survivors found Mourilyan Harbour, about 15 km south of the future town of Innisfail. In 1873 the Queensland Government commissioned George Dalrymple to explore the coast. Dalrymple reported favourably on the region's potential for tropical agriculture and named the Johnstone River after Robert Johnstone, a sub-inspector of native police and former manager of a sugar plantation near Cardwell.
INNISFAIL PLANTATION
In 1879 the Queensland sugar industry was set for a boom, after several years in the doldrums. Lured by Dalrymple's report, Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, former sugar-plantation proprietor and parliamentarian formed Fitzgerald and Co in 1880 which started the 'Innisfail' plantation at Johnstone River. Subscribers to the company included the Sisters of Mercy in Brisbane, who were backed by the influential Catholic Bishop James Quinn. The church and Irish immigrants were equally influential in the early growth of Innisfail. A rudimentary town, at first known as The Junction (of the rivers) or Nind's Camp (after Ninds Creek), grew around Innisfail estate. In 1882 the town was officially named Geraldton, after Thomas Fitzgerald, but confusion with Geraldton in Western Australia led to renaming of the town as Innisfail in 1910, although in the intervening period the name Johnstone River was used.
In 1881 the Colonial Sugar Refining Company entered the Queensland sugar industry, establishing mills at Mackay, the Herbert River and Johnstone River, where it built its Goondi Mill (1885). The Goondi Mill's opening coincided with a fall in sugar prices. Fitzgerald and Co failed, but CSR's financial strength allowed it to survive the downturn.
MIGRANT AND INDENTURED LABOUR
The Johnstone local government division was formed by severance from the sprawling Hinchinbrook division in 1881. Its administrative centre was the infant Geraldton which, in a few short years, gained a hotel and was designated a police and court centre. In 1887 'Geraldton' was proclaimed, and a customs house and primary school opened. By that time the town had a strong Chinese community, most of whom were miners displaced from the Palmer River gold fields and tin mines elsewhere. They introduced banana plantations and set up local businesses, and in the 1880s built the first of two Joss Houses, pre-dating even the Catholic church, which was not erected until 1892. Imported South Sea Islander indentured labour provided the initial workforce for the sugar industry. When the South Sea Islanders were repatriated from the 1890s, cane planters looked to the warmer parts of Europe for immigrant labour, beginning a pattern of Italian settlement in the town. In later years, particularly after each world war, substantial Italian, Greek and Maltese communities migrated to
Innisfail, maintaining the strength of the local Catholic church.
AFTER THE 1918 CYCLONE
A cyclone in 1918 destroyed much of the town. Rebuilding was greatly influenced by prevailing art deco trends. Innisfail today promotes itself as Australia's 'art deco' capital. Paronella Park, a commercial pleasure garden opened by Catalonia immigrant José Paronella in 1935, is 12 km south-west of Innisfail. Despite flood, cyclone and fire damages, many of its concrete structures have been preserved and it remains open to the public. During the 1920s and 1930s, farms were cleared inland of Innisfail for dairy and beef production, and dairy/milk factories were established at Innisfail and nearby Silkwood. Primary industry diversified further after World War II, with the development of large fishing and prawning fleets (1950s-60s), exotic tropical fruit (1970s) and Australia's only major tea supplier, Nerada, when the first tea factory opened in 1971. Sugar, however, remained pre-eminent, assisted by an improved railway connection to a revamped Mourilyan Harbour with bulk-loading facilities (1960).
The annual Mount Hagen Sing Sing brings out a mind-boggling array of unique tribal dance troupes.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/tribal-expressions-pr...
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