Mackay Plantations
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Cartographic Name
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Mackay Plantations
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Identifier
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SITE-MACPLAN
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category
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Plantation
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temporalCoverage
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1867-1990
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sourceOrganization
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Private investment; CSR Sugar
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text
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How many island peoples have sat down on this beach in an hour’s respite from the canefields or the railroad-construction gangs! [..] Greeks. Silcians, Maltese. Japanese. Scots. Irish Maliatans. English. Tannese. Guadalcanals. Senegalese… all these horizon watchers, all with their own rules for an islander’s survival. All these people talking in their dialects, telling stories and singing songs. What a world of trouble and yearning the shells on this isolated beach have heard. What a resonant piece of country we’re on the edge of.
Cultural Geography. Gibson, Ross. Seven Versions of an Australian Badland. University of Queensland Press, 2002, p.183.
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"Using a wooden hammer on an upturned timber box, he began to auction the new arrivals as he would auction horses and cows [..] he never thought of these men as people for fear of losing his perspective.
" Pacific Islander Historical Fiction. Bandler, Faith. Wacvie. Rigby, 1977, p.21.
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A place where evil can be banished so that goodness can be credited, by contrast, in the regions all around.
Cultural Geography. Gibson, Ross. Seven Versions of an Australian Badland. University of Queensland Press, 2002, p.17.