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Indian Head Tukkee (Batjala)
Headland
Indian Head as viewed from Middle Rocks
Coordinates: 25°00′00″S 153°21′59″E / 25.00000°S 153.36639°E / -25.00000; 153.36639
Location	K'gari
Offshore water bodies	Coral Sea
Geology	Sand
Native name	Tukkee (Batjala)
Highest elevation	40 metres (130 ft)

Indian Head (also known as Tukkee) is a coastal headland on the eastern (ocean) side of Fraser Island (also known as K'gari and Gari) off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

Geography

The landmark is the most easterly point on the island and a popular tourist destination. Indian Head is located at one end of Seventy Five Mile Beach.

The outcrop consists of trachyte that was originally formed by volcanic activity 30 million years ago.

History

The headland was named by Captain Cook when he passed it on the evening of 19 May 1770, noting "...on which a number of Natives were assembled...". The term "Indian" was used at that time for the native people of many lands. The headland is known as Tukkee in the Badtjala language, meaning stone or stone knife.

Attractions

Climbing Indian Head provides 360° views as well as good wildlife spotting opportunities, such as manta rays, sharks and whales. Camping around the headland is not permitted.

References

1. ^ "Indian Head – cape in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 47541)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
2. "Fraser Island – island in the Fraser Coast Region (entry 47533)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
3. ^ Hinchliffe, David; Julie Hinchliffe (2006). Explore Fraser Island. Robe, South Australia: Great Sandy Publications. pp. 84–85. ISBN 0-9758190-0-3.
4. Cohen, B. E.; Vasconcelos, P. M.; Knesel, K. M. (February 2007). "40 Ar/ 39 Ar constraints on the timing of Oligocene intraplate volcanism in southeast Queensland ∗". Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (1): 105–125. doi:10.1080/08120090600981483. ISSN 0812-0099.
5. Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World at Project Gutenberg

v t e Australian places named on the First voyage of James Cook in 1770
Victoria	19 April: Point Hicks Ram Head 20: Cape Howe
New South Wales	21 April: Mount Dromedary Batemans Bay 22 April: Pigeon House 25 April: Red Point 28 April: Botany Bay* 6 May: Port Jackson Broken Bay 11 May: Point Stephens Port Stephens Cape Hawke 12 May: The Three Brothers 13 May: Smoky Cape 15 May: Solitary Isles Cape Byron 16 May: Mount Warning
Queensland	16 May: Point Danger 17 May: Point Lookout Cape Moreton Moreton Bay The Glass Houses 18 May: Double Island Point Wide Bay 19 May: Indian Head Sandy Cape 21 May: Hervey Bay Breaksea Spit 23 May: Bustard Bay* 25 May: Cape Capricorn 26 May: Keppel Isles 27 May: Keppel Bay Cape Manyfold 28 May: Shoalwater Bay Northumberland Isles 31 May: Pier Head 1 June: Long Isle Broad Sound 2 June: Slade Point Cape Hillsborough 3 June: Cape Conway Repulse Bay 4 June: Whitsundays Passage Pentecost Island Cape Gloucester Edgecumbe Bay Cumberland Islands 5 June: Cape Upstart 6 June: Magnetical Island Palm Isles Cleveland Bay 8 June: Halifax Bay Rockingham Bay Dunk Island Hillock Point Double Point 9 June: Frankland Islands Fitzroy Island Cape Grafton 10 June: Green Isle Trinity Bay Cape Tribulation Low Isles 13 June: Hope Islands 14 June – 4 August: Endeavour River Cape Bedford 10 August: Cape Flattery 11 August: Lizard Island* Eagle Island* 19 August: Cape Grenville Forbes Islands Bolt Head 20 August: Bird Isles Sir Charles Hardy Islands 21 August: York Cape 22 August: Possession Island* Prince of Wales' Isles 23 August: Booby Island*
*Places where Cook landed

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