Moreton Island, Queensland

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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Side box Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Moreton Island is the largest locality on the island Moreton Island within the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[2] In the Template:CensusAU, Moreton Island had a population of 180 people.[1]

Geography

The boundary of the locality is that of Moreton Island as a whole with the exception of the three separate localities of Bulwer (on the north-west coast), Cowan Cowan (on the west coast) and Kooringal (on the south-west coast). 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 (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[4]

There are many named features and places on the island (from north to south):

  • North Point, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][6]
  • Rocky Hill, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][7]
  • Cape Moreton, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][8]
  • Tungewa, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[9]
  • Yellow Patch, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[10]
  • Cape Cliff, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][11]
  • Five Hills, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][12]
  • Comboyuro Point, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][13]
  • Smith, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][14]
  • Tabilbulla, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[15]
  • Diagram Hills, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][16]
  • Bulwer Valley, a valley (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5]
  • Hutchison Peak, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][17]
  • Jessie Peak, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][18]
  • Mount Campbell, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][19]
  • Russels Top, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][20]
  • The Nek, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[21]
  • Round Hill, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][22]
  • Cowan Cowan Point, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][23]
  • Chanuk Bair, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[24]
  • Hell Spit, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[25]
  • Storm Mountain, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][26]
  • Mount Tempest, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][27]
  • Pimple, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[28]
  • Flat Iron, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][29]
  • Cone Hill, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][30]
  • Tangalooma, also known as Turrbin, a resort (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[31]
  • The Desert, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[32]
  • Tangalooma Point (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][33]
  • Sandy Peak, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][34]
  • Big Sandhills, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][35]
  • Gebelum, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[36]
  • Kounungai, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[37]
  • Little Sandhills, a mountain (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) Script error: No such module "convert".[5][38]
  • Toulkerrie, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[39]
  • Umbounba, a place (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[40]
  • Reeders Point, a headland (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[5][41]

History

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Cape Moreton lighthouse, 1910

The locality name of Moreton Island takes its name from the island of the same name, which was named by Lieutenant Matthew Flinders of HM Colonial Sloop Norfolk on 28 July 1799, taking its name from Moreton Bay. The bay was named by Lieutenant James Cook of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in 1770 after James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, who was President of the Royal Society and was influential in obtaining the grant that enables Cook's voyage. The misspelling of the name Morton as Moreton occurred in the published records of the voyage.[2]

With increasing amounts of shipping coming into Moreton Bay during the 1840s, the New South Wales Government decided to build a lighthouse on the north-east corner of the island (Cape Moreton). It was designed by architect Edmund Blacket in 1854 and completed in 1857. The Cape Moreton Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in Queensland and the only one built prior to the Separation of Queensland and the establishment of the Queensland Government in 1859. It is also the only lighthouse in Queensland built from stone. It is still operational.[42]

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Cricket match at Bulwer State School, 1899, with the teacher's residence on the right

Moreton Island State School opened circa 1876, being renamed Bulwer State School in 1878. In 1891, it was downgraded to Bulwer Provisional School, but by 1895 was Bulwer State School again. When the pilot station families were relocated in 1909, the school was closed.[43]

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Students pictured with their teacher at Cape Moreton State School, circa 1913

Cape Moreton Provisional School opened on 28 August 1876 but closed in 1884. It reopened on 15 February 1886 and permanently closed in December 1925.[43]

Demographics

In the Template:CensusAU, Moreton Island had a population of 243 people.[44]

In the Template:CensusAU, Moreton Island had a population of 180 people.[1]

Education

There are no schools on the island. The options are distance education and boarding schools.[3]

Transport

There are no road or rail bridges to the island. The island is accessed by boat (ferries and barges) or by air. Only 4WD verhicles are suitable for driving on the island.[45]

There are a number of air transport facilities (from north to south)

  • Tangalooma Airstrip (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[46]
  • Kooringal Airstrip (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[46]
  • Bulwer heliport (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[47]
  • Kooringal Emergency Centre heliport (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)[47]
  • Cowan Cowan heliport (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[47]
  • Tangalooma Resort heliport (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[47]

References

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Further reading

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