Like Ayers Rock became Uluru, from today Queensland's Fraser Island will officially be known by its Indigenous name K'gari, which means paradise.
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The popular tourist destination was named Fraser Island after Eliza Fraser, a Scottish woman who was shipwrecked on the island in the 1830s. More than 6,000 submissions were received, with about 70 per cent in favour of restoring the name K'gari."K'gari is the name, it always has been and it always will be," she said.Four title deeds for more than 19 hectares of land on K'gari have also been handed back to the Butchulla people.
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