Take a virtual tour through time across the three townships of North Stradbroke Island. Use the map or the left navigation bar to explore the Island. Click on the map icons to learn more about the each of the Heritage Trail sites and view the historical photos. Click on the photos to enlarge and see the slideshow. The Museum encourages you to visit the Island and walk the Heritage Trail in each township, physical signposts mark each site. Visit the Museum while you are here, located at 15-17 Welsby St, Dunwich. Museum Opening hours:

Tuesday to Saturday: 10am - 2pm

Sunday: 11am - 3pm Phone: (07) 3409 9699

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Dunwich township - Goompie The Dunwich area was called Goompee or Coompee, from a word meaning pearl oyster. It has always been home to a sizeable indigenous population, as well as a seasonal visiting place for tribes from other areas. For the past 180 years it has also been the site of various European settlements, including a military/stores depot and convict outstation (1827-1831), a Catholic mission (1843-1846), quarantine station (1850-1864) and benevolent asylum (1866-1946). In typical 19th-20th century fashion, many structures on the island were recycled. The stores depot buildings were re-used by the Catholic mission, and the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum structures that remained on the island when the asylum moved to Sandgate in 1946 have assumed new uses and can be found scattered around Dunwich and elsewhere on the island.

Amity township - Pulan Pulan Originally known as Pulan by the Nunukul people, Amity Point was home to an Aboriginal population of over 100 at the time of settlement. In 1825 a pilot station was established to guide ships travelling to the Moreton Bay penal settlement via the South Passage. This was Stradbroke Island's first non-indigenous settlement and closed in the 1840s. For many years Amity Point was the main landing place for people visiting the island. It also was the destination of Hayles Cruises, which operated boats between the island and Brisbane until 1970. Erosion by the Rainbow Channel has claimed many historic sites at Amity Point, including the pilot station, a racecourse and the original site of noted yachtsman and historian Thomas Welsby's cottage. Welsby published seven books on Moreton Bay and its history in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He built a cottage at Amity Point from which he explored the bay islands, getting to know them and their inhabitants intimately. His cottage, threatened with erosion, was moved several times and finally dismantled. Some of the timber was used to build Cabarita.