These are 'treasure houses' hardly touched by a tourist industry largely based on star-rated accommodation and bitumen roads.
History is a lasting asset because it never stops growing.
As the years go, whilst roads and roundabouts proliferate, many of these places are lost. A vivid story in the stark colours of starvation and tragedy. At the neat shopping centre, Golden Beach, there is a permanent tribute to the explorer William Landsborough. On the south-eastern side of Wickham Head the Centaur Memorial overlooks the distant ocean horizon where, in World War II, a Japanese submarine sank the hospital ship. A few, very few, markers of our colourful past.