Editing Ngalba Bulal National Park (section)

==History==
The Cedar Bay area was developed in the 1870s for tin mining, and the remains of the tin work can still be seen in the area of Black Snake Rocks.

Cedar Bay gained a degree of notoriety in the 1970s when the [[Joh Bjelke-Petersen|Bjelke-Petersen]] government destroyed a [[hippie]] commune that had been present there since July 1972, when it was started by people who had unsuccessfully tried to set one up in [[Kuranda, Queensland|Kuranda]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Paradise lost: The Cedar Bay raid|magazine=Griffith Review|first=Bill|last=Wilkie|year=2019|issue=65|pages=35–42|url=https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/paradise-lost/ |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qweekend/police-burn-hippy-community-in-north-queensland/news-story/53cf09feff4392ed8b96cd3a8cf7cdd0|title=Cedar Bay police raids: Troubled days in paradise|work=The Courier-Mail (QWeekend)|date=3 August 2019|first=Bill|last=Wilkie|access-date=17 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The raid was controversial because of the immense cost ($50,000) and use of a helicopter, light aircraft and a Navy vessel to arrest 12 people on drug and vagrancy charges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://olddogthoughts.com/2014/09/13/coming-to-a-place-near-you-cedar-bay-no-police-convicted-it-there-will-be-repitition/|title=Coming to a place near you Cedar Bay. No police convicted It. There will be repetition(sic).|date=2014-09-13|work=olddogthoughts|access-date=2018-04-04}}</ref> At the Cedar Bay inquiry, police were accused of burning huts, smashing personal belongings, destroying clothing, chopping down fruit plantations and, ironically, consuming alcohol at the site following the drug raid. Police, in their defence, tendered evidence of squalid living conditions and described the commune’s inhabitants as "filthy, criminal hippies".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://olddogthoughts.com/2014/09/13/coming-to-a-place-near-you-cedar-bay-no-police-convicted-it-there-will-be-repitition/|title=Killer Hunt in Hippie Commune|last=Howes|first=Ted|date=13 December 1992|work=The Sun Herald}}</ref> [[Andrew Olle]]'s report on this incident for the ABC current affairs show ''[[This Day Tonight]]'' won the award for "Outstanding Contribution to TV Journalism" at the [[Logie Awards of 1977]].<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Chris|last= Masters|author-link=Chris Masters (writer)|id2=olle-john-andrew-27542|title=John Andrew Olle (1947–1995) |year=2019|accessdate=17 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/tv/tv-week-logie-award-winners-1970-to-1979-40438|title=Logie Award Winners 1970 to 1979|work=TV Week|access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>

In 2007, the Cedar Bay National Park was part of the {{convert|2000|sqkm}} of land handed over to [[Cape York Peninsula|Cape York]]'s Aboriginal population by the Queensland government.<ref>{{cite news | title=Qld Govt to Hand Over Cape York Land | date=2007-04-11 | url =http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Qld-govt-to-hand-over-Cape-York-land/2007/04/11/1175971146752.html | work =The Age|location=Melbourne | access-date = 2008-01-29 }}</ref> The handover came as a result of a 1994 [[native title]] claim.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jessica |last=Marszalek |title=Aborigines Win Back Cape York Land |date=2007-04-11 |url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21539071-5001028,00.html |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney |access-date=2008-01-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919120334/http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0%2C22049%2C21539071-5001028%2C00.html |archive-date=19 September 2007 }}</ref>

Cedar Bay National Park was known as Mount Finnigan National Park before being enlarged.