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North Stradbroke Island is the larger of the two, about 38 km long and up to 11 km wide. South Stradbroke Island is about 22 km long and at most 2 km wide. North Stradbroke is the more developed of the two islands, with the three small townships of Dunwich , Amity Point and Point Lookout offering vacation rentals, shops and a range of eateries.
Eastern wall of the North Gorge, as seen from the Gorge Walk at Point Lookout. North Stradbroke Island (Jandai: Minjerribah [1]), colloquially Straddie or North Straddie, [2] is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the centre of Brisbane.
Point Lookout is a headland, small coastal town and locality on the eastern coast of North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Redland City, Queensland, Australia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 2021 census , the locality of Point Lookout had a population of 785 people.
The Queensland Aboriginal Protection Association established the mission on the island and known as Minjerribah by the local Aboriginal people, the Quandamooka.In October 1892, an area of 20 hectares (49 acres) was reserved for a mission station at Moongalba, near the northern tip of what is now North Stradbroke Island (after the original single island was divided into two by wave action).
North Stradbroke Island is a locality on part of the island of the same name in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , North Stradbroke Island had a population of 181 people.
Paul Ambrose Tripcony was born in 1901 at Moongalba, North Stradbroke Island on the Myora Aboriginal mission. [1] He was the son of Thomas Tripcony, whose family had emigrated from Cornwall, England and Mary Rose Rollands, whose mother was Ngugi. Thomas Tripcony and his family farmed cattle at Beerburrum and worked oyster banks in Moreton Bay. [1]
The North Stradbroke Island Museum on Minjerribah is a community museum founded in 1987 to present the history of North Stradbroke Island.It is found at 15-17 Welsby Street, in Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island.
Amity is located on the north western point of North Stradbroke Island (known as Amity Point). Directly north is the South Passage and the southern tip of Moreton Island. To the east lies the small town of Point Lookout and to the south lies the main town of North Stradbroke Island, Dunwich. Wallum Creek snakes along the southern border of the ...