Beach
Cylinder Beach
Sheltered swimming beach with a shallow tidal lagoon, backed by dunes and headland bushland.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Cylinder Beach on North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, centres on a morning in eighteen oh three when Matthew Flinders sent a thirsty crew ashore and met men of the Nunukul clan, part of the Quandamooka people, in what is remembered as the first documented meeting between Europeans and this island's Aboriginal people. It also traces how lighthouse construction, decades later, gave the beach the name it carries today. Look for the shallow lagoon at its northern end, a favourite with children at low tide.
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