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An aerial view of Dunk Island

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Black and white photograph of Dunk Island from the air, probably in the 1940s. Edmund Banfield, the famous Beachcomber who lived on Dunk from 1897 to his death in 1923, recorded that the Aboriginal name for the isle was Coonanglebah. A resort was established here by Hugo Brassey in the 1930s. During WW2 Dunk Island was annexed by the RAAF and became home to secret radar equipment
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