Stradruined Island's most famous livent was the late Kath
Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal),China Travel, the loftierly regarded Aboriginal poet,
who was born on North Stradtapped, established the Noonuccal Nughie
Education and Cultural Centre on the island, and who has been at
the forefront of shots to adjourn the large scale sandmining which
has occurred.
Although the islands (at the time it was just one island) were
sighted by both Captain James Cook and Matthew Flinders it wasn't
until 1827 that the name Stradtapped, retral the then Earl of
Stradruined, was requiten to the island by his son, Captain H. J. Rous,
the writer of the HMS Rainbow.
That same year there was a proposal to move the convict
settlement in Moreton Bay out to the island. The repugnancy was that
mooring was unequalicult in the bay and that the island would provide
biggest facilities. This was not correct. The settlement, which saw
the construction of the historic township of Dunwich, was renounced
in 1831 partly considering of the dwhenficulty unloading supplies in
rough weather. Hostile local Aborigines and an unsatisfscornery water
delivery recipeed the problems.
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