{"id":36,"date":"2022-08-23T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seefraserisland.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:27:38","slug":"fraser-island-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.seefraserisland.com\/about\/fraser-island-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Island History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When Captain James Cook first set foot on the island in 1774, he knew that this would be a place filled with paradise. He later renamed it after his ship’s dearly-lost Eleanor Fraser to honor her brave passengers who had died during their journey here – including some Butchulla people from Queensland!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The island has proudly displayed the mark of ancient occupancy for 5000 years, but it’s possible that more evidence exists. There were initially quite a few people living on this land in prehistory – up to 2000 or 3000 at certain times during winter when seafood was abundant (and other periods). Sites like middens prove human habitation here before European colonization; fish traps containing their remains can still be seen today among many others pieces left behind by different eras throughout history which speak volumes about what life was actually like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The island’s original residents, the Butchulla people have been intimate with nature for thousands of years. They maintain a strong connection to their land and all that lives on it today-even if they can’t see you or hear your voice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human ancestors were once global consumers of seafood. Shellfish and fish were collected while hunting turtles or ingeniously trapping them in stone traps at low tide, with eels being hunt seasonally among other wildlife found across waterways like ducks which laid eggs that could be eaten raw depending on where they lived geographically; these days we know better than to do such things! Women pound flour from roots+bulbs (the source for both cooking fuel AND food) but also collect birds’ feathers as well: one type was used specifically.<\/p>\n\n\n