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Inskip Point is shown on Topo map sheet of Fraser Island, just south of Hook Point. Inskip Point is a peninsula in the north of the locality of Inskip to the north of the town of Rainbow Beach in south-east Queensland, Australia. [1] It is the vehicular gateway to K'Gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) via a barge service. [2]
Inskip is a coastal locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] Inskip Point at the north of the locality is a vehicular gateway to Fraser Island (also known as K'Gari and Gari). In the 2021 census , Inskip had a population of 22 people.
The southern tip, near Tin Can Bay, is situated to the north of Inskip Peninsula. The most northern point of the island is Sandy Cape where the Sandy Cape Light was established in 1870 and is still operating. [106] The establishment of the lighthouse was the first permanent European settlement on the island. [24]
(1976) Unidentified Inskip Point; The remains of a 19th-century wooden sailing ship were exposed during a storm in 1976 between Rainbow Beach and Inskip Point. It is believed to be the remains of the barque Saint Magnus, which drifted ashore in a storm during 1875. The wreck was recently exposed during a storm in 2002-2003. [4]
Rainbow Beach is bounded to the east by Wide Bay in the Coral Sea. [4]The town's name derives from the rainbow-coloured sand dunes surrounding the settlement. According to the legends of the Kabi people, the dunes were coloured when Yiningie, a spirit represented by a rainbow, plunged into the cliffs after doing battle with an evil tribesman. [5]
Inskip alludes to the following: Inskip, Lancashire, a village in England RNAS Inskip (HMS Nightjar), a Royal Navy installation near Inskip, Lancashire, England;
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Hook Point (Indigenous name: Torerr) is the southernmost tip of Fraser Island (also known as K'Gari and Gari) in Queensland, Australia. [1] It is the landing point for ferry services from Inskip Point , which is some 1,200 meters further south.