Maps

Hervey Bay, Craignish, Pialba, Maryborough, Baddow, Moonaboola, Bauple, Gayndah

Badge Description

Scouts emblem

Island and Coastal area = Fraser Island and coastal area

Yellow area = Fraser district boundaries

Whale = annual visit of the  Humpback whales to Hervey Bay in mid-July to early November. This is part of the whale migration route.

Town Hall = Clock Tower at Maryborough which is an iconic building

As tourism is a major industry within this district, icons representing the two biggest cities Maryborough (Clock Tower) and Hervey Bay (Whale) are depicted.

Badge was designed sometime around 2019 [1]

Previous Badge Variations

The following are variations of the badge:

Type: Woven bound (issued around 2019)	Type: Woven bound, red border (issued around 2020)
47 x 50 mm	45 x 50 mm
Ext	Ext

History

Fraser district is named after Fraser Island, which is now known as its indigenous name which is K’gari Island (K’gari means ‘paradise’).  For a short period the island was also known as Great Sandy Island. The island became known as Fraser due to the stories of a shipwreck Scottish survivor named Eliza Anne Fraser.  The ship, the Stirling Castle; was shipwrecked off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 22 May 1836, and Eliza claimed to be captured by Aboriginal people when in fact she was ship wrecked on the island and taken in by the Badtjala(Butchella) people.  Her husband Captain James Fraser, master of the Stirling Castle, either died from starvation or from his injuries.   In 1976 a drama film titled “Eliza Fraser” was made about her and was the first Australian film with a seven figure budget, costing $1.2 million to make.  K’gari Island was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992. The island is considered to be the largest sand island in the world at 1,840 km. It is also Queensland’s largest island.  The district was established in 1st April 1981 when Maryborough and Maheno district combined and closed to form Fraser district [1, 2].  The first District Commissioner of Fraser District was Tom Macnamara who served as DC for 16 years [1].

Local Scout Events

Maryborough has also hosted many of Queensland’s Cuborees, AJ2013 and will be hosting AJ2025

Local Places of Interest

Whale watching (Hervey Bay); Urangan Pier-stretches 1 km into the sea (Hervey Bay); K’gari Island-formerly Fraser Island-world’s longest sand island; Railway Museum and Mary Ann Steam Train (Maryborough); Cistern Chapel Toilet-public art (Maryborough City Hall); Maryborough Military and Colonial Museum; Gallipoli to Armistice Memorial (Maryborough); Brennan & Geraghty’s Store museum (Maryborough); Story Bank-Mary Poppins author (Maryborough); Time Cannon Firing by the Town Crier – Thursdays 1 pm (Maryborough)

Groups

Fraser District Groups (1983): Baddow Scout Group, Fairfield Heights Scout Group, Granville Scout Group, Hervey Bay Scout Group, 4^th Maryborough Scout Group, Maryborough West Scout Group, Moonaboola Scout Group, Pialba Scout Group, Urangan Scout Group. [3]

Fraser District Groups (2018): Baddow Scout Group, Bauple Scout Group, Gayndah Scout Group, Hervey Bay Sea Scout Group, Maryborough West Scout Group, Moonaboola Sea Scout Group, Pialba Scout Group [4]

Fraser District Groups (2020): Baddow Scout Group, Bauple Scout Group, Craignish Scout Group, Gayndah Scout Group, Hervey Bay Sea Scout Group, Maryborough West Scout Group, Moonaboola Sea Scout Group, Pialba Scout Group [5]

Fraser District Groups (2024): Baddow Scout Group, Bauple Scout Group, Craignish Scout Group, Hervey Bay Sea Scout Group, Maryborough West Scout Group, Moonaboola Sea Scout Group, Pialba Scout Group