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The original Royal George Hotel was built in 1912 by G.L. Bury, and was one of the first main hotel establishments on the Sunshine Coast. After a horrendous fire which hit Nambour Curry Street in 1924, the building was rebuilt. In the mid-1950s another blaze took on the second floor, and the whole structure was rebuilt in the style it is to be seen as today. Over the years, the RGH has been known in the region as the friendly pub, the Worker Man's Hotel (cane cutters, mill workers...). The Royal George Hotel always has been and still is an iconic landmark for the town of Nambour. The Royal George Hotel has been family owned and operated since the year 2000 by the Laing family. Known over the years and throughout the Sunshine Coast for their generosity, sponsoring many junior sporting teams and events, as well as senior sporting clubs, the Laing family's motto has never changed: "Buy Local, Support Local". Source: www.thergh.com.au/about#:~:text=The%20original%20Royal%20....

The making of a town produces many memories and Nambour's landmark Club Hotel was originally the site of the Residential Hotel, built in 1911 as a timber saloon that provided accommodation only. The hotel was re-named the Club Hotel in 1912 when a liquor license was granted. The hotel was remodeled in the 1920s and destroyed by fire on January 7, 1938, in a blaze that decimated half of the town. The present Club Hotel building was erected on the same site in December 1938. The building was architecturally designed with cement walls. For Currie St and the wider Nambour community, this building has stood as an important part of Near North Coast history in the heritage sugar town. It has been the gatekeeper to memories of the iconic cane train crossing the nearby main street where the tracks still remain today. Today, this lovely old pub building houses an exceptional surfboard collection with an impressive array of rare and iconic boards lining the walls. This collection includes the large timber planks of the early 1900s as well as the more modern fiberglass boards of the 1960s and current times. In this collection there is a replica of the surfboard used by Duke Kahanamoku, a true Hawaiian hero and one of the world's greatest surfing watermen, when he first visited Australia and gave a surfing exhibition at Sydney`s Freshwater Beach on December 23, 1914. This is widely regarded as the most significant day in the development of surfing in Australia. The building and surfboard collection opened with a completed renovation of the floor that had previously been vacant for more than 10 years. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sunshine-coast/lan...

Bishop Island was an island near the mouth of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. History Bishop Island was formed by dredging at the mouth of the Brisbane River between 1909 and 1912. It was named Bishop Island in 1912 after Allan Fitzroy Gordon Bishop, the captain of the dredge Hercules involved in creating the island. Many ships were dumped on the island. The Australian United Steam Navigation Company's SS Bingera was dumped in 1926; it was built to provide the mail service between Brisbane, Gladstone, and Townsville and became redundant when the railway line to Townsville was completed. The Queensland Government's steam yacht Lucinda was dumped on 28 January 1937. The island became a popular recreation spot visited by private boats and tourist operators. In 1976, the island was used by the Port of Brisbane. In 2004, the port expanded through land reclamation in Moreton Bay, resulting in Bishop Island ceasing to exist as an island, becoming part of the mainland port. Source: wikimili.com/en/Bishop_Island_%28Queensland%29

Goods Island, located between Cape York and New Guinea and close to Thursday Island, is said to have been named by Captain Matthew Flinders, whilst traveling through the region. The name is said to have been bestowed in honor of his gardener/botanist on the voyage, Peter Good. Over time, the present spelling of Goods came into more common usage, giving us the present name of the island. Goods Island was identified from as early as the 1880s as an ideal location for a lighthouse, particularly in view of the increases in shipping at the time. A light at Goods Island, it was argued, would point out the position of the entrance to Normanby Sound and the Prince of Wales Channel, thereby improving safety for shipping. As a result, a temporary light was put in place in 1883 and maintained as part of the pilot station. The Queensland government Port master at that time, George Poynter Heath was however soon arguing for a more powerful light to be put in place, on a permanent basis. Source; www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/queensland-places-goods-island

Pearling Luggers of the Torres Strait By Christina Ealing-Godbold, Research Librarian, Information Services | 19 November 2014 Typically, a pearling lugger had two or three divers, two or three tenders to operate the air pumps, a cook, an engineer, and two sailing crew. The divers, who were mostly Japanese, risked their lives in rubberised canvas suits, heavy boots laden with lead, and helmets with thick glass. The divers were paid according to the amount of shell they collected, so every minute on the bottom was precious. Their lives were in the hands of the tenders above, who operated the air pumps to keep them alive. Initially, pearl shell was easily located in shallow waters. However, by 1871, a diving suit was designed, allowing access down to 20 fathoms. As the pearl shell was collected over many years, the remaining shell deposits were at increasingly greater depths, and by the end of the 1930s, divers were going down to 40 fathoms in areas such as the Darnley Deeps. Few Australians could be attracted to the perilous occupation of pearl diving. The bends killed many of the divers, as did shark attacks. In 1916, the official death rate in workplaces in Queensland was reported as 1.1% of the workforce, contrasting with the 10% quoted for pearl divers. Cyclones were also a threat to the safety of the pearling fleets, with one cyclone in1899 sinking more than 50 luggers, and killing 300 men. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/pearling-luggers-torres-strait