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The earliest historical records suggest that Brisbane was very well inhabited by the Turrbal people, who called the area Meeaan-Jin.
Brisbane City as it is today became settled by westerners largely as a result of them witnessing the thriving Turrbal people located in the area. Earlier settlements had been planned at bayside areas of Redcliffe and also Cleveland. The first major settlement at Humpybong (Redcliffe) in 1824 failed dismally as the area was not as protected or lush as the Brisbane River reach marked by Coronation Drive today.
Pioneering explorer, John Oxley, in 1824, noted a large assemblage of Turrbal people along the present-day site of the Wesley Hospital, The Regatta Hotel and Coronation Drive on account of water being readily present there.
In 1823, three castaways (Pamphlett, Parsons and Finnegan) had a tense encounter with some of the Turrbal people in the vicinity of the present-day Brisbane central business district. The shipwrecked timber-getters had earlier set out from Sydney in a sailing boat bound for the Illawarra district to cut cedar but were blown dramatically off course.
The various pathways (Aboriginal tracks) that had existed since the
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- Indigenous