AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
It used to be called Fraser Island because white folks named it after a Scotswoman who ended up shipwrecked there in the 1830s. She told huge fake stories about how she was held captive by them and that they were monsters and horrible and mistreated her. To the Baccilla people of Queensland, that island was always called Guri. And for a while, the two names coexisted. But this, this week, they finally dropped the name of that Scottish interloper and it's just Guri now.