The North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum recently won the inaugural John Oxley Library Community Heritage Award for 2010, for the Online Heritage Trail.

The Award recognises excellence and innovation in the recording
of Queensland history by individuals and local community organisations.

Click here to go to the Online Heritage Trail

 

North Stradbroke Island is a beautiful 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.

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

The Museum was founded in 1987 to present Island history.