The Garner family came to Bingil Bay to run a sawmill for the Cuttens, and in 1911 took up a farm selection.
Augustus Gregory lead an expedition across the north of the continent comprising 19 men, with 50 horses and 200 sheep to the interior with his brother, H. C. Gregory, as second in command and Baron von Mueller as botanist. The party left Moreton Bay by sea on 12 August 1855, and proceeded to Pearce Point (Joseph Bonaparte Gulf), and at the estuary of the Victoria River. The party split up, with one group going up the river in a schooner, while Gregory led the other over the range. Gregory led forays up the Victoria River and traced Sturt's Creek for 483 km until it disappeared in the Tanami Desert. The party explored the Elsey, Roper and Macarthur Rivers, then travelled back to Brisbane by way of the Flinders, Burdekin, Fitzroy and Burnett Rivers, arriving back in Brisbane on 16 December 1856. Journals of Australian Exploration.
Zane Grey, American novelist, filmmaker and big game fisherman planted the first coconut palm on Hayman Island. He lived at the island on his boat Avalon while shooting part of his comedy drama White Death. He left Sydney in the Manunda on May 5, 1936 with a staff of twenty who camped on the island until they left on 28 July 1936.
Ben Gulliver, nurseryman, who in the 1890s was the proprietor of the Acacia Vale Nursery and Pleasure Gardens located on the current site of the Villa Vincent Home. He also had gardens at Sussex Street, Hyde Park and Stuart.