Queensland government reinstates name at ceremony attended by hundreds of traditional owners
Queensland’s iconic Fraser Island has had its name reinstated to K’gari in a historic ceremony attended by hundreds of traditional owners and government officials.
It’s a fitting title for the world’s largest sand island, with K’gari translating to paradise in the local Butchulla language. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the island each year, which possesses half the world’s freshwater dune lakes and is famous for its dingo population. The move to reinstate the island’s Indigenous name came after a decades-long campaign by traditional owners and a partial victory in 2017, when the island’s Great Sandy national park was renamed K’gari.
K’gari was originally known by Europeans as Great Sandy Island before it was changed to Fraser Island, after Scotswoman Eliza Fraser was shipwrecked there in the 1830s.
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