Snapper Island is an island at the mouth of the Daintree River in Queensland, Australia, some 20 km north of Port Douglas. It is administered by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service as the Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park^[1]. The Daintree River runs through the Daintree Rainforest in Australia. ... Emblems: Faunal - Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus); Floral - Cooktown orchid (Dendrobium bigibbum); Bird - Brolga (Grus rubicunda); Aquatic - Barrier Reef Anemonefish (Amphiprion akindynos); Gem - Sapphire; Colour - Maroon Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Slogan or Nickname: Sunshine State, Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Const. ... Four-Mile Beach, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. ... The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australias Great Barrier Reef from activities that would damage it. ...

Snapper Island is a popular tourise sea kayak destination.

Indigenous culture

The island is part of the traditional sea country of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people. It is a special place for which they feel strong and enduring responsibilities of custodianship. The Kuku Yalanji people hunt and fish around the island and traditionally manage the island's culture

Other history

In the early 1900s, Jerry Doyle operated a lime kiln on the island, fired by wood from the Daintree, ferried over on a vessel called the "Nellie". Beche-de-mer (sea cucumbers) processing (boiling) may also have been undertaken here. There is evidence of remains of an early Chinese market garden on the island, the watercourse stonework of which is still visible today. Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi in Babylon 5 Jerry Doyle (born 16 July, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor best known for his role as Michael Garibaldi on the 1990s science fiction television series Babylon 5. ... A 19th century limekiln A limekiln is a kiln used to produce quicklime by the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate). ... Beche-de-mer is a kind of big sea cucumber that is eaten in China and Japan. ...

This island was a stopover by George Elphinstone Dalrymple before he discovered the Daintee River. (http://www.daintreecoast.com/daintree.htm)

References

• ↑  State of Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (2003). Snapper Island National Park and Marine Park. Retrieved September 14, 2005.

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Aerial photos & maps

Coordinates: -16.297° 145.499° Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

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