Delve into North Stradbroke Island
The district North Stradbroke Island of in Redland (Queensland) is a subburb in Australia about 599 mi north-east of Canberra, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 24°C / 76 °F
Morning Temperature | 19°C / 66 °F |
Evening Temperature | 23°C / 73 °F |
Night Temperature | 21°C / 69 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 55% |
Air Pressure | 1019 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 15% of sky |
General Conditions | Few clouds |
Monday, 25th of November 2024
24°C (75 °F)
22°C (71 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
25°C (77 °F)
22°C (72 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
25°C (77 °F)
24°C (74 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Pandanus Palms Holiday Resort
Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel & Spa
Whale Watch Ocean Beach Resort
Videos from this area
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Stingray City-Flatrock,Morton Bay
Giant Bull Rays & Spotted Eagle Rays filmed from MV SuperSport 12-13 Dec 2009. Flatrock,Morton Bay, QLD, Australia.
straddie - soldier crabs
Soldier crabs (Myctyris sp.) at Moreton Bay Research Station, Stradebroke Island, QLD.
Spinnaker Run
Spinnaker run to a town called Dunwich, Stradbroke Island. We have managed to effectively use the spinnaker in winds to 13knots and find it very easy to use 'single-handed', when correctly installed.
Dolphins at Sunset - Amity Point - North Stradbroke Island presented by Peter Bellingham Photography
Dolphins at Sunset - Amity Point - North Stradbroke Island.
Cleaning up Amity
In one hour, nineteen divers removed an enormous quantity of discarded recreational fishing gear. The video shows the thick knotted mats of nylon fishing lines covering the sea floor rendering...
Feeding dolphins at Amity Jetty
Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland - people come to the jetty most afternoons to feed and pet wild but friendly dolphins who come right over to the jetty to say hello. This was...
Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis) / Perlhalstaube [1]
A Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis) on an overhead line at Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Australia Eine Perlhalstaube, Gefleckte Perlhalstaube oder Tigerhalstaube auf einer Oberleitung...
Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) / Brillenpelikan [4]
An Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) at Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia Ein Brillenpelikan bei Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australien...
Head of a Crested Tern, Greater Crested Tern or Swift Tern (Thalasseus bergii) - 1
Head of a Crested Tern, Greater Crested Tern or Swift Tern (Thalasseus bergii) / Kopf einer Eilseeschwalbe 17.12.2012 Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland Australia Camera: Panasonic.
Chick of the Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) / Küken vom Maskenkiebitz [2]
Chick of the Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) near Amity Point, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia They are so small but at the coast I enjoyed to see them running really fast! ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Blue Lake National Park
Blue Lake is a national park in Queensland, 44 km east of Brisbane on North Stradbroke Island. Access is provided by road 9 km west of Dunwich. The park's main features is Blue Lake which is known as a window lake and is just under 10 metres deep when full. It is home to the southern sun fish. Water from the lake overflows into the Eighteen Mile Swamp. The aboriginal name for Blue Lake is Karboora. The ephemeral Tortoise Lagoon is also found in the national park.
Stradbroke Island
Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, was a large sand island that formed much of the eastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland until the late 19th century. Today the island is split into two by the Jumpinpin Channel.
North Stradbroke Island
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. It is known colloquially as Straddie.
Peel Island
Peel Island is a small island located in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia. During the mid-19th century Peel Island was used as a quarantine station for the colony of Brisbane. Sailing ships would anchor to the north of the Island, the passengers would disembark on Peel Island for a quarantine period before moving on to Dunwich on nearby North Stradbroke Island.
Victoria Point, Queensland
Victoria Point is a suburb located approximately 33 kilometres south-east of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia, in the Redland City local government area. It is primarily a residential area, but it also contains other public complexes and a ferry service to Coochiemudlo Island. As of 2006, Victoria Point was home to 13,755 people. The main point area has two boat ramps for boat entry to Moreton Bay and a Volunteer Marine Rescue unit.
Dunwich, Queensland
Dunwich is a small town on the western side of North Stradbroke Island in the Australian state of Queensland. The town is part of the Redland City local government area, based on the mainland in the Brisbane bayside suburb of Cleveland. Dunwich is one of three towns on North Stradbroke Island - the others being Amity Point and Point Lookout. At the 2006 census, Dunwich had a population of 804.
Redland Bay, Queensland
Redland Bay is a suburb south-east of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia, and is part of the Redland City local government area. It is named for the bay it sits on, which forms part of larger Moreton Bay The Aboriginal name for the Redland Bay region was Talwalpin after the cottonwood tree which was widespread in the area.
Point Lookout, Queensland
Point Lookout is a headland and small coastal village located on the eastern coast of North Stradbroke Island. To the north lies Cape Moreton and to the south the next major headland is Point Danger on the New South Wales/Queensland border. The other towns on the island are Dunwich and Amity Point. The point was first sighted by James Cook in 1770. Point Lookout is an excellent fishing spot, as is Jumpinpin Channel on the south of the island.
Amity Point, Queensland
Amity Point is a small close knit township located on the north western point of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia in Redland City. At the 2006 census, Amity Point had a population of 408. 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 town.
Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island)
Brown Lake is a lake on North Stradbroke Island, in Queensland, Australia. Known as a perched lake like other lakes on the sandy islands in the region of South-East Queensland it retains its water due to a layer of leaves lining the lake floor. This is particularly apparent in the Brown Lake as tannin is exuded from the leaves, dropped from surrounding Paperbark Melaleuca and Ti-trees Leptospermum, stains the water to a rich brown colour not dissimilar to that of tea.
Coochiemudlo Island, Queensland
Coochiemudlo Island is located near Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia. Coochiemudlo Island is a small island in the southern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland. The island is approximately 1 km from Victoria Point in Redland Shire. Coochiemudlo is an anglicised version of the local aboriginal words for "Red Rock". A natural cliff composed of iron-rich rock is exposed on the south western side of the island Sandy beaches wrap around the island's southern, eastern and northern sides.
2009 southeast Queensland oil spill
The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred on 11 March 2009 off the coast of southeast Queensland, Australia, in which 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers (620 tonnes) of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish after unsecured cargo on the container ship, MV Pacific Adventurer damaged other cargo, causing the spillage.
Eprapah Creek
Eprapah Creek (Longitude 153.30º East, Latitude -27.567º South) is a sub-tropical stream located in Redland City close to Brisbane in South East Queensland, Australia. The creek flows directly to the Moreton Bay at Victoria Point. It is basically 12.6 km long with about 3.8 km of estuarine zone. In the latter, the water depth is typically about 1 to 2 m mid-stream, the width is about 20–30 m and the tides are semi-diurnal with a range of about 2 m.
South Passage (Queensland)
South Passage is channel between the South Pacific Ocean and Moreton Bay. The other entrances to the bay are the North Passage 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.