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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 ...
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.
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.
The other entrances to the bay are the North Passage or North Entrance and Jumpinpin Channel in the south. It was once the main entrance for ships entering the bay. South Passage begins in the shallow sand-barred channel between Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island and continues along North Stradbroke Island past Amity Point to Dunwich. [1]
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.
Dunwich is a town and locality on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] Dunwich is part of the Redland City local government area, administered from the bayside town of Cleveland on the Queensland mainland.
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A pilot station was built in 1825 elsewhere on the island, on Amity Point, lighting the South Passage into Moreton Bay. [2] In 1848 this pilot station was also moved. [1] A lighthouse on Point Lookout was finally constructed in 1932, the first settlement at the point.