Lieutenant James Cook (he was not yet a Captain) first discovered and named the bay Morton Bay after Lord Aberdour the 14th Earl of Morton. Morton was President of the influential Royal Society back in England, and Cook wished to honour him in this way.
Moreton Bay was misspelt by those who published the accounts of Cook's voyages back in England, and the name remained.
It was first discovered 15 May 1770 James Cook when he passed the area
Britain did not choose Moreton Bay. The Moreton Bay penal colony was established 36 years after the first convicts arrived in Australia. The site was discovered by John Oxley in 1823 when he was sent north by Governor Thomas Brisbane in search of a potential new site for a convict settlement.
Lieutenant James Cook named Morton Bay in 1770, but a misspelling when Cook's logs were published caused it to be changed to Moreton Bay. Cook's Moreton Bay was only the outer region, and he did not sail into the current Moreton Bay.Matthew Flinders renamed Captain Cook's Glass House Bayas Moreton Bay in 1799.
The First Fleet did not sail to Moreton Bay.The colony of the Moreton Bay District was founded in 1824, 36 years after the First Fleet arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales. In September of 1824, John Oxley arrived at Redcliffe with a crew and 29 convicts on the ship Amity after sailing from Sydney.
Matthew Flinders was the first European to discover Coochiemudlo Island, in Moreton Bay. Captain Cook had previously sailed past the Bay, not realising it was there. Flinders did not name Coochiemudlo, the name for which was taken from the aboriginal word meaning "red earth". Coochie was merely noted as "island number 6" in Flinders' logs, the previous five being Mud, St. Helena, Green, King and Peel, also in Moreton Bay. Flinders landed on Coochie on 19 July 1799, an event that is re-enacted every year on the island.
If the question refers to the original penal settlement in Moreton Bay, Queensland, it shut down because there was not a ready supply of fresh water in the Redcliffe area. The prison colony was not shut down entirely, but was moved to the banks of the Brisbane River, some 30 km away. If the question refers to St Helena Island in Moreton Bay, which was a prison and not a convict colony, the main factor which caused it to be shut down was cost. It was too expensive to keep ferrying supplies out to the island, then at least an hour's trip from Brisbane, so a new prison was built in Brisbane, at Boggo Road.
It was first discovered 15 May 1770 James Cook when he passed the area
Britain did not choose Moreton Bay. The Moreton Bay penal colony was established 36 years after the first convicts arrived in Australia. The site was discovered by John Oxley in 1823 when he was sent north by Governor Thomas Brisbane in search of a potential new site for a convict settlement.
No one person owned (or owns) Moreton Bay. James Cook claimed Moreton Bay for Great Britain, along with the rest of the eastern coast of Australia, but no one owned it then or owns it now.
Moreton Bay College was created in 1901.
The area of Moreton Bay Region is 2,037 square kilometers.
Moreton Bay Pile Light was created in 1952.
Moreton Bay College's motto is 'Fortitudine Et Spe'.
Lieutenant James Cook named Morton Bay in 1770, but a misspelling when Cook's logs were published caused it to be changed to Moreton Bay. Cook's Moreton Bay was only the outer region, and he did not sail into the current Moreton Bay.Matthew Flinders renamed Captain Cook's Glass House Bayas Moreton Bay in 1799.
Moreton Bay Boys' College was created on 2011-05-11.
Moreton Bay Symphony Orchestra - MBSO - was created in 2012.
The Aborigines had been visiting Peel Island, in southeast Queensland's Moreton Bay, for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. However, the first European to chart the island was Matthew Flinders, in 1799. Captain James Cook had sailed right past the opening to Moreton Bay when he charted the eastern coastline in 1770.
The Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) is endemic to the east coast of Australia within a range centred on Moreton Bay which is where it gets its common name from.See related link for more information.