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Deception Bay

Placename
Deception Bay
Layer
Bunya Attendees
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Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-27.2
Longitude
153.033333

Description

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

People travelled from here to attend the Bunya festival, according to colonial records.

Sources

ID
td0149
Source
Schmidt, Rev. 1842 in Blake, Thom & Osborne, Peter 'Deception Bay – The History of a Seaside Community Caboolture Shire' 2008, p 10; Kerkhove, Ray 'The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts' Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts

Extended Data

BunyaHostLocation
Baroon