Australia's Fraser Island officially renamed to its Aboriginal name, K'gari

The S.S. Maheno is a shipwreck that beached on K’gari nearly a century ago, and still remains on the island today. — Pixabay

Australia officially renamed a vast Unesco-protected island off its east coast recently, replacing a colonial-era name with the Aboriginal word K’gari.

Fraser Island – home to a World Heritage Site – will now be called K’gari, a Butchulla-language word linked to the island’s creation story.