Green Island
Tiny coral cay of rainforest and white sand ringed by reef, twenty seven kilometers off Cairns.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Green Island off Cairns turns on July of eighteen seventy three, when a beche-de-mer camp owner named James Mercer ran a station on this coral cay staffed by workers brought from Palm Island against their will. It traces the ration dispute that turned deadly, and the earlier killing nearby that had already brought an armed native police response led by an officer named Robert Arthur Johnstone. You will hear why the island's tiny size mattered to the men working it. Best heard walking the jetty toward the rainforest boardwalk, near where the old camp once stood.
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