‘All kind of nation’: Aborigines and Asians in Cape York Peninsula

Autor:	Athol Chase
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Marine conservation geography geography.geographical_feature_category Resource (biology) business.industry Project commissioning Natural resource Publishing Peninsula Cape Ethnology Social science General Agricultural and Biological Sciences business Settlement (litigation)
Zdroj:	Aboriginal History Journal. 5
ISSN:	1837-9389 0314-8769
DOI:	10.22459/ah.05.2011.01
Popis:	Apart from some interaction with Torres Strait Islanders, the Aborigines of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, were free from overseas contact until European 'discovery' and subsequent settlement occurred in the nineteenth century. Shortly after Europeans arrived, Asians appeared in the Peninsula and its waters, attracted by news of its mineral and marine resources. Their intention, like that of 'Macassan' visitors to other north Australian shores in earlier days, was only to exploit the rich natural resources for as long as this was profitable. In Cape York the Asians (particularly the Japanese and Chinese) came to work the mineral fields or to supply the fast-growing lugger industries with specialised labour. Despite European anxiety at the time, these Asians were resource raiders rather than colonists intending to settle the north.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::59e0741767cc59d84906be56cbfbfd19 https://doi.org/10.22459/ah.05.2011.01 Zobrazit plný text záznamu