NASA satellite view of southern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland. The long sandy beach on the right faces the Coral Sea.

North Stradbroke Island

Eastern wall of the North Gorge, as seen from the Gorge Walk at Point Lookout.

North Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, 30 km southeast of the capital Brisbane. Before 1896 the island was part of the Stradbroke Island. In that year a storm separated it from South Stradbroke Island, forming the Jumpinpin Channel. The island is about 38 km long and 11 km wide. Image File history File links Satellite_Image_southern_Moreton_Bay_Queensland_Australia. ... Image File history File links Satellite_Image_southern_Moreton_Bay_Queensland_Australia. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 304 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (361 × 712 pixel, file size: 591 KB, MIME type: image/png)North Stradbroke Island NASA World Wind Landsat montage. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 304 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (361 × 712 pixel, file size: 591 KB, MIME type: image/png)North Stradbroke Island NASA World Wind Landsat montage. ... Image File history File links NorthGorgeLookingEast. ... Image File history File links NorthGorgeLookingEast. ... Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of November 2006)  - Population  4,164,590 (3rd)  - Density  2. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Stradbroke Island was a large sand island in Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland. ... South Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast. ... The Jumpinpin channel lies between North Stradbroke Island and South Stradbroke Island. ...

The permanent population the island is quite small, but the number of people on the island swells significantly during the holiday season. There is no bridge to the island and the only access is via vehicular or passenger ferries leaving from Cleveland. The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, circa 1945. ...

There are three main settlements on the island. Dunwich is the largest and has most of the services including the school. Point Lookout is on the surf side of the island and is the major tourist destination in the season. The third is Amity Point and is much smaller and a popular fishing spot on the island. Dunwich is a small town on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in the Australian state of Queensland. ... Point Lookout is a headland and small coastal village located on eastern side North Stradbroke Island. ... Amity Point is a small close knit township located on the north western point of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia in Redland Shire. ...

History

The native name for the island is Minjerribah but in 1827 Captain H. J. Rous, who had the title of Viscount Dunwich, commander of the HMS Rainbow the first British ship of war to enter Moreton Bay, named the island after his father the Earl of Stradbroke, the town after his title, the entrance channel after himself and even gave his boat a guernsey with the naming of Rainbow Beach. Year 1827 (MDCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Several British and Canadian warships have been named Rainbow, after the common meteorological phenomenon. ... Moreton Bay from space, from a NASA photograph Moreton Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia 19 km from Brisbane, Queensland. ... The title of Earl of Stradbroke was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1821. ...

Stradbroke Island's most famous local was Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker, the Aboriginal poet and native-rights campaigner. She was one of the prime-movers of the movement that lead to the 1997 agreement between the local government council and the aboriginal people of the area claiming rights over the island and parts of Moreton Bay. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920—16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, Political activist, artist and educator. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Redland Shire Council logo; the koala is the mascot of the Redlands Redland Shire is a Local Government Area of South East Queensland, spread along the southern coast of Moreton Bay covering 537 square kilometres. ... Aboriginal land claims are claims of Native or Aboriginal peoples (also referred to as Indigenous peoples) about their ownership of land before the arrival of settlers, primarily Europeans. ...

Mining

During the 1960s sand mining operations began impacting on the fragile island environment. As an alternative, development of the island for seaside residential use was mooted and in 1970 a bridge from the mainland via Russell Island was under serious consideration by the Queensland government.c The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Sand mining is a practice that is becoming an ecological problem as the demand for sand increases in industry and construction. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Russell Island in Redland Shire is the biggest of the southern Moreton Bay islands sandwiched between the mainland and North Stradbroke Island in the state of Queensland, Australia. ...

However, the understanding of the island's environmental and native heritage value was on the rise. In 1991 the Australian Government and sand mining companies ACI and Consolidated Rutile Pty Ltd reached an agreement. Half of North Stradbroke Island would become a National Park in return for a guarantee that mining could continue for the life of several mines in high grade areas ¹. Mineral sands and silica sands at Myora Mine, near Dunwich, are currently being mined from the surface while rutile, zircon and ilmenite are dredged from the Yarraman Mine on the north of the island and the Enterprise Mine on the south of the island by Consolidated Rutile Limited ^[1]. Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Most sand on beaches consists of grains of the mineral quartz (SiO2). ... Rutile is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide, TiO2. ... Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates. ... Ilmenite is a weakly magnetic iron-black or steel-gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks. ...

Settlement

The island has the region's oldest archaeological site at Wallen Wallen Creek near Dunwich. Research at the site has provided evidence of human activity beginning at least 22 000 years ago. More aboriginal shell middens can be found scattered behind the sand dunes along the main beach. This July 2007 does not cite any references or sources. ... Various seashells Danielle A shell is the hard, rigid outer covering, or integument, allanimals. ... A midden, also known as kitchen middens, is a dump for domestic waste. ... This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...

More recently, there were some incidents in late 2003-early 2005 in which groups of youths came to Stradbroke (in September and December) for the purposes of partying and for schoolies week. This led to minor conflict with local residents. An upgraded police presence in 2005 saw Stradbroke return to relative calm. Since January 2005, there have been no incidents. Schoolies or Schoolies week (known as Leavers or Leavers week in Western Australia) refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates (known as Schoolies) having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December. ...

Main Beach, as seen from Point Lookout

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Attractions

The only public hotel on the island was at Point Lookout. However in January 2006 it was closed for re-development. In the same month a young woman swimming at dusk off Amity Point, was mauled by three bull sharks and later died in a nearby hospital. For other uses, see Hotel (disambiguation). ... This article concentrates on human swimming. ... Dusk in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA. Dusk outside a plane on cruise. ... Binomial name (Müller and Henle, 1839) Range of bull shark The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, also known as the bull whaler, Zambezi shark or informally Zambi in Africa and Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is common worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. ...

North Stradbroke Island is known for its long clean white beaches in the east, its peacefulness due to a long isolation and its rich diversity of nature varying from whales passing Point Lookout to the many wild orchids in the interior of the island. Ninety Mile Beach Australia. ... A Fin Whale The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. ... Orchid re-directs here; for alternate uses see Orchid (disambiguation) Genera Over 800 See List of Orchidaceae genera. ...

Blue Lake in Blue Lake National Park

The island has a few freshwater lakes; Lake Kounpee, Brown Lake and the beautiful Blue Lake situated in Blue Lake National Park. There are a number of lagoons including Black Snake Lagoon, Herring Lagoon and Palm Lagoon. In some areas there are extensive swamplands such as the long Eighteen Mile Swamp and another behind Flinders Beach. Other notable features of the island include Adder Rock between Amity and Point Lookout and on the southern tip of the island is Swan Bay and an area of very large sand dunes. Image File history File links Blue_Lake. ... Image File history File links Blue_Lake. ... Blue Lake is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 44 km east of Brisbane. ... Brown Lake is a lake on North Stradbroke Island, in Queensland, Australia. ... Blue Lake is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 44 km east of Brisbane. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The island is managed and administered by the North Stradbroke Island Water Resource Coordination Group and the Department of Natural Resources and Water ^[2]. The Department of Natural Resources and Water is a Queensland Government department that administers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters, Climate Change Policy and Science, Commercial Forestry, Commercial Water Services, Land (including Crown Land and Freehold Titles Registration), Native Title, Natural Resource Management (including Vegetation Management), Catchment Management, Place Names...

See also

• Bribie Island
• Moreton Island

View of the Glass House Mountains from Bribie Island, Queensland Looking NW toward Bribie Island, Queensland, Australia Bribie Island is a sand island in the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland. ... Moreton Island is the island in the top-right of this satellite image Moreton Island from above the waters of Moreton Bay Moreton Island is a large sand island on the eastern side of Moreton Bay, on the coast of south-east Queensland, Australia. ...

References

1. ^ Consolidated Rutile Limited Where we've come from: Company Milestones. Retrieved 13 January 2007.
2. ^ North Stradbroke Island: The development and management of water supplies for Redland Shire and mining purposes Retrieved on 14 April 2007.

Notes

For further statements on the environmental issues by the people of North Stradbroke see Commonwealth of Australia Senate Committee Hansard Report 1998

Coordinates: 27°35′S, 153°28′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...