Albany Island or Pabaju is an island off the north-eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula in the Adolphus Channel and part of the Manar Group of islands of Queensland, Australia. It is within the locality of Somerset in the Shire of Torres.[1]
Island in Queensland, Australia
Albany Island
Native name:
Pabaju
Albany Island (Pictured in center)
Admiralty Plan No. 1937. Plan drawn in 1862 showing site on Albany Island advised for the proposed Cape York Station, and the best position for the township on the mainland opposite.
The island is a part of the Torres Strait Islands; it is about 6km (3.7mi) long and is volcanic with fringing coral reefs.[4] It is said to have been certainly part of the territory of the Djagaraga or Gudang people.[5]
A bêche-de-mer station was established on the island in 1862 by C. Edwards and J. Frazer.[7] After an inspection by Queensland's Governor Bowen, a settlement was planned for the island but it was built instead on the adjacent mainland in 1863 at Somerset, Queensland. There was still a trochus shell farm there in 1995,[8] and there is now an operational pearl farm.[9]
The wreck of the RMS Quetta, a passenger ship that sank in 1890, lies just off Albany Island. The ship hit an uncharted rock and sank in a very short time killing 134 people.[10]
History
Djagaraga (also known as Yadhaigana, Dyagaraga and Yagulleone) is of the languages from the tip of Cape York. The language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council. Traditionally the language was spoken on Eastern Cape York particularly the localities of Albany Island and Mount Adolphus Island.[11]
The island was named Albany in 1846 by Lieutenant Yule of HMS Rattlesnake, in honour of Frederick, Duke of Albany, who was the brother of King George IV. Albany Island is also closely associated with one of Queensland's worst maritime disasters, this being the tragic sinking of the RMS Quetta. The passenger ship Quetta, struck an uncharted rock in the Adolphus Channel, just off Albany Island in 1890, with the loss of 134 people.[12]
Great Britain. Hydrographic Department; Stanley, Owen, 1811–1850; Bate, R. B. (Robert Brettell); J. & C. Walker (1849), Australia, Port Albany, Published according to Act of Parliament, at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty: Sold by R.B. Bate, Agent for the Admiralty charts, 21 Poultry, archived from the original on 2 June 2021, retrieved 2 June 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
"Shipwreck - Quetta RMS". Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
Bowen, George (1864). “New Settlement at Cape York, and Survey within Great Barrier Reef,” Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1863–1864), pp. 114–121.
Firth, Dawn W. and Clifford B. (1995). Cape York Peninsula. Reed Books. ISBN0-7301-0469-9.
Ganter, Regina (1994). The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait. Melbourne University Press. ISBN0-522-84547-9.
Moore, David R. (1979). Islanders and Aborigines at Cape York. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. ISBN0-85575-076-6 (hard cover); ISBN0-85575-082-0 (soft cover). USA edition: ISBN0-391-00946-X (hard cover); ISBN0-391-00948-6 (soft cover).
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