Campbell, 1982:

Archaeology of Hinchinbrook Island

The northern and western sides of Hinchinbrook have many tidal fish-traps and comments on some of these have appeared in the literature for more than 70 years. Banfield (1909:54), for instance, remarks on the continued efficiency of one of the traps at Missionary Bay long after it had been abandoned by its builders.  Some of the shell middens of the islands have also been known for a long time, and those at Leefe Peak on the south-western side were robbed of shell for fertiliser just before and during World War I.  Details provided in an article and photographs which appeared in The North Queensland Register on 9 March 1914 suggest that these at Leefe Peak were mounds of almost pure shell.  

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Citation and/or URL

Campbell, J.B. (1982). Automatic seafood retrieval systems: the evidence from Hinchinbrook Island and its implications.  Coastal archaeology in eastern Australia:  proceedings of the 1980 Valla Conference on Australian pre history, Canberra. Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Prehistory.  

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Hinchinbrook Island, Great Barrier Reef

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1982

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