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Main Aboriginal Camp of Sandgate, spread out along the foreshores. The ‘flat expanse’ of open water (Warra – the traditional name of Sandgate) was focus of Corroborees along the beach here, as late as the 1880s. The Camp survived at least until 1895.
Citations
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 39.
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Map References
QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 4 chains to the inch. Plan of the Marine township of Brighton on the shores of Moreton Bay adjoining Sandgate, Parish of Nundah, County of Stanley with local plan at ca mile to one inch. ca 4 chains to the inch. Millington & Co., Licensed Surveyors, Brisbane. 620404