The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (55 page)

Darwin, Emma

Darwin Medal

Davenport, Charles B.

David, Edgeworth

Debbie

Decaen, Charles-Mathieu-Isidore

deep drilling

deep-sea life

Deeral, Eric

Deeral, Erica

Defoe, Daniel

de Kerjean, Louis

dengue fever

de Quierós, Fernandes

de Rougemont, Louis

de Vaugondy, Robert

de Vis, Charles

diatoms

Dickens, Charles

Discosoma haddoni

Discosoma kenti

Discovery Festival

diving; Veron and

Dix-sept ans chez les sauvages
(Merland)

Djiru clan

Doodegab

Dora

Dorrigo

Douglas, John

Dowling, M. M. G.

Dowoothoo

D’Oyley, Captain

D’Oyley, Charlotte

D’Oyley, William “Uass”

dragonflies

drilling, of reefs;
see also
mining

dry season

Dry Tortugas

dugong: eating of; endangering of; oil of

Dulingbara

Duncan, Davey

Dunk Island; Aborigines and; artists’ colony on; as bird sanctuary; claimed by Banfield; food on; habitats of; Mayor on; pilgrims to; tourism and

Duppa, Old

Eastern Fields

East India Company

echinoderms

ecology; disdain for; used by conservationists

economic biologists,
see
marine industries

“Economic Report” (Yonge)

ecosystems,
see
ecology

ecotourism

Edinburgh University

Edwards, Edward

eels

egrets

Ellan Yannin

Ellis, John

Ellison Reef

El Niño

Eltham

Embury, “Arch”

Embury, Edwin Montague “Mont”

Embury, “Uncle Tom”

emotional intelligence

Emre Turak Reef

endangered species

Endean, Robert

Endeavour
,
see
HMS
Endeavour

Endeavour Land

Endeavour River

Endeavour Strait

Enewetak Atoll

England: France and; imperialism of

Enlightenment

environmental education

environmentalism,
see
conservationists

environmental variation,
see
taxonomy: questioning of

Erroob Island

ethnography, anthropology vs.;
see also
Aborigines; indigenous peoples; Torres Strait Islanders

eucalyptus forests

European/Aboriginal relations
see under
Aborigines

Evans, Raymond

Evans Bay

Evening News

evolution; of corals

exploitation: of labor; of marine resources

extinction: of birds; GBR threatened with; previous

Falling Star Hole

Family group

Fantome
(ship)

faunal boundary lines

Faust
(Goethe)

Favia

Fenton, Arthur

fertilizer: effects on reef of; reef used for

Field, The

Fiji

firestick farming

fish; oil spills and; poisonous; in reef ecosystem

fishing; commercial; conflict over; by contemporary Aborigines; with nets; with spears

Fitzroy, Robert

Fletcher, Harold

Flinders, Ann

Flinders, Matthew; Aborigines and; accomplishments of; background of; Cook outdone by; dilemma of; inner passage navigated by; mission of; naming by; post-Australia difficulties of; readers of; Torres Straight navigated by

Flinders, Samuel

Flinders Passage

Florida

Flotsam
and
Jetsam

Flower, William

Fly

Foelsche, Paul

Foley, Fiona

foraging

Foraminifera

Forsters

fothering

France: British rivalry with; imperialism of; Pelletier’s return to

Fraser, Eliza; adaptations of story of; background of; capture of; public response to; return to England by

Fraser, James

Fraser, Jane

Fraser Island

Frazer, Joseph

frontier expansion,
see
Aborigines: displacement of; settlement, European

fruit pigeons

fruits

Funafuti

Gabriel

Gallipoli

Gamay Warra clan

Gameena

Gardiner, J. Stanley

gas industry;

GBRC
see
Great Barrier Reef Committee

Geddes, Patrick

gender roles: of British; of Kaurareg; of Wanthaala

genetics

genocide

geology, of reefs,
see
reef formation

George III (king)

Georges, George

Geraldton

ghost people

Gia people

giant manta rays

Gibson, Bruce

Gienow

Gilmartin, Red

Giom,
see
Thompson, Barbara

Girton College

glacial melt

Gladstone

glass eel

Glenelg, Lord

glider possums

global warming,
see
climate change

Glynne, Mary P.

Goals and Paths
(Haeckel)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Golding, Bertha,
see
Banfield, Bertha Golding

goldlip oysters

gold rush

Gondwanaland

goniastrae

Good, Peter

Gorton, John

granite

Grassy Hill

Gray, Asa

Gray, George

Great Barrier Reef; age of; author’s connection to; beauty of; biodiversity of; dangers of; degradation of; ecosystems of; inner passage of; as labyrinth; naming of; outer Barrier of; ownership of; as park; perceptions of; potential extinction of; preservation of; resilience of; resources of,
see
marine industries; scientific observation of; shipwrecks in; size of; surveying of; as wonder of the world

Great Barrier Reef, The
(Bennett)

Great Barrier Reef Committee; as anticonservationist; founding of

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority; need for; size codified by

Great Barrier Reef of Australia: Its Products and Potentialities
(Saville-Kent); as inspiration

Great Sandy Isle

Green, Charles

Greene, Alexander

greenhouse gases

Green Island

Gregory, Augustus

Gregory, Edmund

Griffin

Griffith, Samuel

Grin, Henri Louis

grouper

guano miners

Guarang Guarang clan

Gudang people

Gulf Country

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Florida

Gumakudin clan

Gunage

Gurrgiya Gunggandji clan

Gurugulu Gunggandji clan

Guugu Yimithirr people

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Haeckel, Ernst

Halfway Island

Hall, Bill

Harold Holt Commemorative Marine Reserves

Harrier
(ship)

Harvard; Museum of Comparative Zoology at

Hatch

Hawaii

Hawkesworth, John passim

hawksbill turtle

Haycock Island

Hayman Island Biological Station

Heatwole, Harold

Hedley, Charles

Hegerl, Eddie

Henslow, John

Herald

Herbert river region

hermatypic corals,
see
corals; reefs

Heron Island

Hervey Bay

Hideaway Resort

Hinchinbrook

historiography

HMS
Beagle

HMS
Bramble

HMS
Challenger

HMS
Endeavour
; food for crew of; repairs to; replica of

HMS
Fly

HMS
Investigator
; damage to; health of crew on; specialists aboard

HMS
Isabella

HMS
Meander

HMS
Myrmidon

HMS
Rattlesnake

HMS
Tigris

Hobart

Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove

Holothuria

Holt, Harold

Holt, Zara

honey

Hope Island

Hope Vale

Hopkins, Thomas Hollis

Hornsby, Alberta Gibson

Horwitz, Tony

Horseshoe Reef

Houtman Abrolhos islands

Hunter, John

hunter-gatherers,
see
foraging; fishing; hunting

hunting; for birds; for dugong; as men’s work; for turtles

Huxley, Thomas: clout of; as Darwin’s disciple; on the
Rattlesnake

Hyatt, Alpheus

Hyatt, Harriet

hydrogen bombs

ice ages

Imperial College

imperialism;
see also under
Aborigines; British Empire

Ince

Indian Ocean, routes to Pacific Ocean from

indigenous peoples: conservation and; differences among; offensive acts against; relationships between; respect for; stereotyping of;
see also
Aborigines; Torres Strait Islanders

individualism

Indonesian corals

infusoria

initiation ceremonies

Injinoo Land Trust

Innisfail

International Coral Reef Symposium

International Society for Reef Studies

international trade,
see
shipping routes

International Zoological Congress

Investigator
,
see
HMS
Investigator

Iredale, Tom

Ireland

Ireland, John “Wak”

Isabella
(ship)

Islanders,
see
Torres Strait Islanders

Island of Lies
(Coote)

islands; Europeans living on; formation of

“Is the Great Barrier Reef on Death Row” (Veron)

James Cook University

Japan, pearling and

Japex

Jardine, Bootles

Jardine, Frank

Jardine, John

Jardine, Sania Solia

JCU (James Cook University)

jellyfish

Jenny

Jinny

John Bell
(ship)

John Elder
(ship)

Johnson, Eveline Kent

Johnson, Lyndon

Jones, Steve

Jorgensen, Justus

journalism: Banfield and; bribery and; Cambridge expedition and; sensationalist

Jukes, Joseph Beete; accomplishments of; background of; indigenous peoples and; imperialism of; mission of; romanticism of; scientific observation by

Jura people

Kabi Kabi

kangaroo

Kangaroo Point

Karkynjib Wombil Moony,
see
Morrill, James

Kaurareg people; boats of; children of; death and; food of; gender roles of; genocide of; and other groups; Thompson’s status among

Kaye, Ruth Emilie; childhood of; journey to Australia by; murder by; post-prison life of

Keeling atolls

Kelly, Geoff

Kelly, Thomas

Kennedy District

Kenney, John

Kent, Acland

Kent, Constance,
see
Kaye, Ruth Emilie

Kent, Edward

Kent, Elizabeth Bennett

Kent, Eveline

Kent, Florence

Kent, Francis Savill

Kent, Mary Amelia

Kent, Mary Ann (William’s mother)

Kent, Mary Ann Livesey (William’s wife)

Kent, Mary Drewe Pratt

Kent, Samuel

Kent, William,
see
Saville-Kent, William

Keppel Bay

Key West

King, Governor

King’s College

Kirby
(boat)

Kirk, Susi

krill

Kropotkin, Peter

K-T extinction

Kulkalaig

Kupang

Ku-ring-gai Chase reserve

Kuuku Yulanji

Kyee Mareeni
(boat)

labor: Aboriginal; union

Labor Party

Ladd, Harry

Lady Elliot Island

Lady Nelson
(ship); damage to

lagoons

Land Act of 1860

land rights, of Aborigines

Lark Passage

Last Leaves from Dunk Island
(Banfield)

Lawson, Henry

Leclerc, Georges-Louis

Leopold, Aldo

Lever Pacific Plantations Company

Lewis, Captain M.

Liberals

Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The
(Sterne)

limestone

Littoral Society

Livesey, Mary Ann

Livingstone, Arthur

Lizard Island

lizards

Lloyd Bay

lobsters

Lockhart River

Lockhart River Art Gang

Loggerhead Key

London Natural History Museum

Long Reef

Lord of the Rings, The
(Tolkien)

Louisiade Archipelago

Low Isles; laboratory on

Luana
(boat)

lunar phases

Lyman, Theo

Maademan

Mabileau, Louise

Mabo case

Macfarlane, Robert

MacGillivray, John “Jock”

MacGillivray, William

Mackay

Mackenzie, Kirsty

Madagascar

Madame Tussaud’s

Madrepore
;
see also
corals; reefs

Major, James

malaria

Maldives

Maldon

Mammoos

Man and Nature
(Marsh)

mangroves

mantis shrimp

Manton, Sidnie

Manu

Manual of the Infusoria, A
(Saville-Kent)

mapping,
see
surveying

Marco Polo
(ship)

marine biology; equipment for; geology vs.; zoology and;
see also
corals; reefs

marine industries; as exploitative; science and;
see also
pearling

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