North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum

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The North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum (NSIHM) was founded in 1987 to present the history of North Stradbroke Island. The historical museum is found at 15-17 Welsby Street, in Dunwich (originally named Goompee or Coompee), on North Stradbroke Island.

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[edit] Dreamtime mythology

The carpet snake (rainbow serpent), Kabool, is a powerful traditional symbol for Stradbroke Island’s indigenous people, who have lived here since the Pleistocene Age. The island was originally named Minjerribah by its indigenous inhabitants - the Noonucal and Gorenpul people.

[edit] Local history

James Cook named Point Lookout, the Island’s eastern-most point, in 1770, but the first recorded contact with Europeans was in 1803, when a party from Matthew Flinders’ cutter Hope came ashore to find water.

North Stradbroke Island is an island off the Queensland coast near Brisbane. Straddie, as it is locally known, was named in honour of the son of the first Earl of Stradbroke, H.J. Rous, captain of the first ship of war to enter Moreton Bay (1827), conveying Governor Darling to the Moreton Bay convict settlement.

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