THE DIEPPE MAPS AND QUEENSLAND- AFTER McINTYRE

Queensland historians awake! If you merely accept our history as expressed in the past you will rightly be swept aside. This is a time of tremendous change. We must realise that Queensland (and Australia) is not a spot in isolation; it is part of the area of the South-West Pacific, and so we must look at all our early visi-tors. Because of our unique position there were many more in Queensland than in the other less accessible states. What of Alexander's fleet which disappeared about 327 B.C.? Where were they blown to? It is the same story with the caravel of the second Spanish fleet (after Magellan) which disappeared without trace in the Pacific in 1526. But what of the old woman on Hao Island in the Tuamotos (east of Tahiti) who was wearing a gold ring with an emerald when Hao was discovered by De Quiros in 1606. Captain Bruce Whiteman says what of the Spanish ship found in the coral of Boot Reef 150 miles east b