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Originally a whaling station, Tangalooma Island Resort (formerly known as Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort) is a resort on the west side of Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia. It lies on the eastern shore of Moreton Bay and is known for its resort accommodation, dolphin-feeding program, sand dunes and wreck diving .
Tangalooma is the main access point to the island with regular passenger ferry and vehicular barge services. The island's main airstrip is 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) long and lies between Cowan Cowan and Tangalooma. The other settlement is Kooringal which is located near the southern tip of the island.
Apart from the Tangalooma Resort, almost all of the locality is within the Moreton Island National Park. [ 3 ] Cape Moreton Lighthouse is on Cape Moreton , the north-eastern point of the island ( 27°01′54″S 153°27′57″E / 27.0318°S 153.4659°E / -27.0318; 153.4659 ( Cape Moreton Lighthouse
Map of Moreton Bay made in 1842 by Robert Dixon (high resolution image) Land for sale in Manly in 1887 Moreton Bay Pile Light, c. 1912 Sailing on Moreton Bay in 1915 Woody Point jetty at Woody Point Beach scene, Sandgate December 1937 The first of the Tangalooma Wrecks were placed in 1963, one year after the whaling station ceased operations.
Kooringal consists of a few streets of housing along the south-western tip of Moreton Island. It is connected to the other settlements on the island by two routes: [4] the Toulkerrie-Kooringal Bypass Road which travels north through the mangroves along the west coast until the sandy western beach commences.
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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.
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