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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.
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.
Captain James Cook named the rocky headland on the north-eastern tip Stradbroke Island Point Lookout in 1770, as a warning to shipping. Although the area had been used and occupied for tens of thousands of years by Indigenous people, the first recorded European presence at Point Lookout was in 1803 when Matthew Flinders, returning to Sydney from an ill-fated exploration trip further north ...
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 ...
Despite the name, the entire island is not contained within this locality as there are three other small localities around the towns of Dunwich, Amity and Point Lookout. [3] [4] [5] However, most of island is within this locality. [6] Much of centre and south of the locality is within the Naree Budjong Djara National Park. [6]
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 ...
Dunwich, Amity, Point Lookout Brown Lake (Bummeria) is a perched lake on North Stradbroke Island , in South-East Queensland , Australia. [ 4 ] The ecosystem is an example of a coastal non-floodplain sand lake [ 5 ] and is characterised by acidic water, nutrient-poor and sandy soil, shrub-like vegetation and wet heathland .
Point Lookout Light is an active lighthouse on Point Lookout, a headland on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland ... in 1825 elsewhere on the island, on Amity Point, ...