Prior to British colonization, it was not an island but a network of inter-tidal channels.
During the British rule, a European cemetery was located here.
James Brodie (1769-1801), a British civil servant and businessman, was granted 11 acres on Quibble Island in 1796 and built Brodie Castle.
[2] Quibble Island was first shown as having two properties in a survey from 1798 but marked blank in 1816.
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