Quandamookan

The Quandamookan are the Aboriginal Australian people of Moreton Bay in south-eastern Queensland, made up of the Nunukul and Goenpul of North Stradbroke Island and the Ngugi of Moreton Island. They moved between semi-permanent camps, fished from canoes for mullet and hunted dugong and sea turtle. Each tribe spoke a Durubalic dialect of the Pama-Nyungan family, including Jandai and Moondjan.

In 1799 Matthew Flinders charted Moreton Bay, their first encounter with Europeans. They later sheltered the castaways Thomas Pamphlett, John Finnegan and Richard Parsons, whom John Oxley found on his 1823 voyage. In 1824 Oxley founded a penal settlement at Redcliffe, beginning the colonial seizure of their bay.