Legacy
Logan had been hated by the convicts due to his strict discipline and program of punishments. Moreton Bay convicts "manifested insane joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of the warders." Logan's death is central to the folk song Moreton Bay which represents Logan as a bloody tyrant. "Captain Logan, he had us mangled, on the triangles of Moreton Bay", attributes his death to "a native black", and concludes "my fellow prisoners, be exhilarated, that all such monsters, such death may find". In the long poem A Convict's Tour to Hell, written in 1839 by the convict Frances MacNamara, also thought to be have composed the Moreton Bay lyrics, the convict sees Captain Logan suffering in hell.
Many geographic features in South East Queensland bear his name. These include Logan City, the Logan Motorway and Logan Road, Logan River, Logan Village, Loganholme, Loganlea and Logans Ridge. A commemorative plaque to one of Logan's expeditions can be found in Tully Memorial Park by the Logan River at North Maclean.
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