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The university's geographical expansion continued in 2018 with the transfer of the Queensland University of Technology's Caboolture campus to UniSC's control. [14] The move into the region just north of Brisbane preceded UniSC's greenfield development of Moreton Bay's first full-scale university campus at Petrie, which opened in 2020. [66]
UniSC Arena [1] (previously known as USC Stadium) is a multi-purpose indoor sports facility located on the Sippy Downs campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The stadium hosts netball , basketball , volleyball and futsal events for professional athletes and students.
The new Moreton Bay Research Station and Study Centre (MBRS) was opened on 23 June 2000, [7] by the Honourable Peter Beattie, MLA, with funding provided by the University of Queensland, the Port of Brisbane Corporation, the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron and Consolidated Rutile Limited (now Sibelco Australia).
Caboolture is a centre within the City of Moreton Bay local government area. The mayor is Peter Flannery and the local councillor is Adam Hain. Caboolture is divided between the electoral districts of Pumicestone and Morayfield in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland , and forms the main part of the Division of Longman in the Australian House ...
Petrie is situated in the Yugarabul traditional Indigenous Australian country. [9]Thomas Petrie established his homestead Murrumba on a bend on the Pine River in 1858. Tom Petrie was part of the Petrie family, who were the first free settlers in Queensland and who established their prominent construction business in 1840.
The other entrances to the bay are the North Passage or North Entrance and Jumpinpin Channel in the south. It was once the main entrance for ships entering the bay. South Passage begins in the shallow sand-barred channel between Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island and continues along North Stradbroke Island past Amity Point to Dunwich. [1]
Brighton is located 27.9 kilometres (17.3 mi) by road north of the Brisbane CBD. [5] The suburb is bounded to the north by the Pine River, to the north-east and east by Bramble Bay (a side bay of Moreton Bay), to the south by Bracken Ridge Road, to the south-east by the Deagon Deviation, and to the east by Bald Hills Creek. [6]
The Redcliffe Airport is an aerodrome straddling the Kippa-Ring and Rothwell suburb boundaries, just south of the Deception Bay inlet from Moreton Bay. With an 853 m runway (07/25), it is owned and operated by the Redcliffe City Council. The Redcliffe Aero Club is based at the airport and provides pilot training, aircraft hire and charter services.