The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (56 page)

marki
; marriage and

Marsh, George Perkins

Marshall, Sheina

Marshall Islands

Marten, Maria

Martha Ridgway
(ship)

Mather, Patricia

Mauritius, Flinders imprisonment on

Mayoral Court of Inquiry

Mayor, Alfred; accomplishments of; Agassiz and; background of; on Darwin; journeys to GBR by; marriage of

Mayor, Harriet Hyatt

McArthur, Kathleen

McCalman, Andrew

McIlwraith, Thomas

McKinney, Jack

McMichael, Don

McNamee Creek

McNeill, Frank

MCZ (Museum of Comparative Zoology)

Meander
(ship)

meandrina

meditation

medusae

Melanesian tribesmen

Melbourne
Herald

Melville, Harden Sidney “Griffin”

Meredith, Louisa Ann

Mer Island

Merland, Constant

metallic starlings

meteors

methane

Mickie

Microscopical Society

Mikhaylov, Pavel

Millepora

Miller, Dean

Millport marine research station

Milton, John

mining: of Ellison Reef; for oil and gas

missionaries

Mission Bay

Mission Beach Aboriginal Settlement

mist

Mitchell, David

molluscs;
see also
pearling

Monkhouse, Jonathan

Monkman, Kitty

Monkman, Noel

monsoons

Montsalvat

Moony, Karkynjib Wombil,
see
Morrill, James

Moore, David

Moorhouse, Frank

Moreton Bay

Morning Advertiser

Morning Post

Morrill, James: background of; with Bindal; colonizers and; injuries to; post-Bindal life of; shipwreck of

Morris, William

Mossman, Harry

Mountains of the Mind
(Macfarlane)

Mount Elliot

Mount Ernest

Mount Tamborine

Muralag

Murray, John (
Lady Nelson
captain)

Murray, John (Scottish marine scientist)

Murray group

Murray Island

Murrells, Jem,
see
Morrill, James

Museum of Comparative Zoology

mushroom corals

Myrmidon
(ship)

Mysteries of Udolpho, The
(Radcliffe)

Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
(Dickens)

My Tropic Isle
(Banfield)

Nagi

Naiga, Alick

Napier, S. Elliott

Narrative of the Melancholy Shipwreck of the Charles Eaton
(Wemyss)

Narrative of the Melancholy Wreck of the Charles Eaton
(Curtis)

Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Fly
(Jukes)

Nathan, Matthew

National Geographic

Native Title Act 1993

Natricidiae kentii

natural history museums;
see also
Australian Museum; Museum of Comparative Zoology

Naturalist in Australia, The
(Saville-Kent)

natural selection,
see
evolution

Nature

nature writing

Navigator
(ship)

Nellie

New Guinea

New Holland; mapping of;
see also
Australia

Newport

New Reformation

New South Wales: gold in; mapping of; naming of; settlement of;
see also
Australia

New Zealand

Ngulungbara

Nicholls, Aubrey

Nicklin, Frank

Night Island

Ningaloo

Noble, Rico

“noble savages”

Nolan, Sidney

Noonuccal, Oodgeroo

north Australia separatists

Northumberland group

Nuadji

Numa

Nuripai

nutmeg pigeons

octopuses

oil industry

oil spills

Old Aburda

Old Den

Old Duppa

Old Fields

Old Manu

Old Sallali

Old Seewai

On the Barrier Reef
(Napier)

On the Origin of Species
(Darwin)

Orpheus Island

Orr, A. P.

Otter, Charles

outer reef

Outzie

Ovens River

overfishing

Owen, Richard

oystercatchers

Oyster Cay

oysters; cultivation of

Pacific Ocean, routes to Indian Ocean from

Palmer River

Palm Island

Pama Malngkana

pandanus tree

Pandora
(ship)

Pan-Pacific Science Congress

Papua New Guinea

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

parasites

Paris

parrot fish

Patrick

Paterson, Bob

Peaqui

pearling

Pearl Shell and Bêche-de-Mer Fisheries Act of 1881

Pelletier, Narcisse; adoption of; background of; contemporary Uutaalnganu-speaking people and; drawing by; passing by; return to France by; shipwreck of

Pelletier: The Forgotten Castaway of Cape York
(Anderson)

petroleum industry

Peyssonnel, Jean-André

Philippines

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Philp, Robert

photography: of coral; Saville-Kent and; science and; underwater

photosynthesis

physical anthropology

phytoplankton

pigeons; as endangered

Pinard, Emmanuel

pinna mollusc

Pitkethly, George

plagiarism

plankton

plant genetics

plovers

pneumonia

Podaga

Policeman
(ship)

Pollock, E. F.

pollution

Popular Science Monthly

population ecology

Port Bowen

Port Curtis

Port Denison

Port Essington

Port Jackson

Potts, Frank A.

Prince of Wales Island

Prince of Wales passage

“Problems of the Great Barrier Reef, The” (Richards)

Providence
(ship)

Purchas, Samuel

pygmy fish

Queensland; Department of Agriculture of; development mania in; GBR owned by; Littoral Society of; Mining Department of; Museum in; Royal Historical Society of; separatist movement in; settlement of; wildlife protection in

Queensland Trough

Quetta
(ship)

Qui Qui

race, theories of

racism

Radcliffe, Ann

Raine Island

rain forests; conservation of; reefs’ interdependence with

Ramalees
(ship)

rationality

Rattlesnake
(ship)

Ravenscroft, Eliza Jane

reef formation; Agassiz’s theory of; algae and; Daly’s theory of; Darwin’s theory of

Reef in Time, A
(Veron)

reefs: biodiversity of; destruction of; at night; origins of,
see
reef formation; productivity of;
see also
corals

reef science, trends in

Reine des Mers
(ship)

Repulse Bay

research stations

reticulate evolution; evidence for

Richards, Henry Caselli

Rivendell

Road

rock art

Rockhampton

Rockingham Bay

rock lobsters

romanticism; Aborigines and; of author; of Banfield; of Busst; of Cambridge expedition; of escape artists; of Flinders; of Jukes; of Mayor; of Saville-Kent; of Webb; of Wright

root vegetables: cultivated; wild

Ross, Eliza Ann

Rossel Island

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rowan, Ellis

Royal College of Surgeons

Royal Geographical Society

Royal Society; of Queensland; of Tasmania; women in

Royal Yacht Squadron

Royal Zoological Society

Russell, Anna

Russell, Frederick

Russell, Gweneth

Sagittoidea

Saint-Gilles-sur-Vie

Salmon Commissioners

Sambo

Samoa

Sandbeach country

Sand Country Almanac, A
(Leopold)

Sandy Cape

Santa Barbara

sardines

Sassy

Saturday Review

“Save the Reef” campaign

Saville-Kent, William; affairs of; aquariums of; books by; childhood of; coral and; discoveries of; family of; family murder of; GBR and; journeys to Australia by; oysters and; personality of; photography and; return to England by; in Tasmania

scarification

scavenging

science; art and; as anticonservationist; diving and; empiricism and; funding for; gender in; as interdisciplinary; photography and; priorities within; tourism and

Science

Scleractinia

Scleractinia of Eastern Australia
(Veron)

Scotland Yard

Scotsman, The

Sculthorpe, Peter

scurvy

sea anemones

sea cucumbers

sea levels

sea rights, of Aborigines

sea snakes

seasons

sea urchins

seawater, chemical composition of

Selborne
(White)

self-interest

Selkirk, Alexander

sensationalism

sensibility, cult of

sentiment

separatists

Seriatopora hystrix

settlement, European

Seven Years’ War

Sexton, Paul

sharks; endangering of

Sheepstation Creek

shells: over-collecting of; taxonomies of; uses for;
see also
pearling

Ship, The

shipping routes

Shipwrecked Orphans, The
(Ireland)

Shipwreck of the Stirling Castle
(Curtis)

shipwrecks; looting of

Shoalwater Bay

shrimp

Silent Spring
(Carson)

Simon, George Eugène

simple life

Simpson, John

Skull Reef

skulls: collecting of; shaping of

Smith, G. C. “Boatswain”

snakes

socialism

Société d’Anthropologie de Paris

Solia, Sania

Solitary Islands

Somerset

South Seas

Specter of the Brocken

Spender, Percy

Spitfire
(ship)

Stacpoole, Henry De Vere

Stafford-Smith, Mary

staghorn coral

Stanley, Owen

Stanner, W. E. H.

starfish; damage to reef by

starlings

Stephens, Mr.

Stephenson, Anne

Stephenson, Thomas Alan

Sterne, Laurence

Stevenson, Robert Louis

stewardship, of nature

Stirling Castle
(ship)

Stoddart, David

Strickland, Walter

Strong-tide Passage

Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, The
(Darwin);
see also
Darwin, Charles: subsidence theory of

sublime

subsidence; Agassiz’s quest to disprove

Sudden Jerk, The
(ship)

sugar industry

Sun

sunbirds

surveying; instruments for

Suzuki, David

Swain, William

Swain reefs

swiftlets

Sydney

Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Technical College

Sydney Times

symbiosis; of coral and algae; varieties of

Synapta

synecology

syphilis

Talbot, Frank

Tarrka

Tasman, Abel

Tasmania

taxonomy; native; questioning of; role of in zoology

Taylor, Thomas Griffith

terns

terror, beauty and

T. Fisher Unwin

Third Pan-Pacific Science Congress

Thirsty Sound

Thomagugu

Thomas

Thompson, Barbara “Giom”; attempted kidnapping of; background of; Boroto and; children of; Kaurareg left by; language of; passing by; public response to; time with Kaurareg of

Thomson, Wyville

Thoreau, Henry David

Thursday Island

tides

tiger sharks

Tigris
(ship)

Tijou

Times, The
(London)

Toby

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Tolstoy, Leo

Tom

Topinard, Paul

Torres Strait;
Charles Eaton
in; Flinders and;
Fly
in; Saville-Kent in; shipping routes through; Veron in

Torres Strait Islanders; Aborigines and; boats of; Europeans adopted by; European conflict with; European connections with; food and; in sugar industry; tribal elders among; westernization of

Torres Strait Route, The
(Banfield)

Torrey Canyon
(ship)

tourism; restrictions on

Townsville; Banfields in; institute of marine science in,
see
AIMS; separatist movement in

Townsville Daily Bulletin

Townsville Evening Star

Townsville University College

Tracey, Geoff

trade unions

trees

trepang

Tridacna

trochus; shells of

Tropic Days
(Banfield)

Tsinan
(ship)

tuberculosis

Tuesday Island

Tully region

Tupaia

Turtle Reef

turtles; Aboriginal stewardship of; endangerment of; fantasies about

type specimens

Uass

underwater photography

UNESCO

University of London

University of Melbourne

University of New England

University of Queensland

University of Sydney

Unwin, T. Fisher

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