Natural feature
North Stradbroke Island
Barrier island once hand-mined for rutile, now under Quandamooka traditional ownership.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to North Stradbroke Island, in Brisbane's Moreton Bay, traces the shovel gangs who mined mineral sand on Minjerribah from nineteen forty-nine, camping behind the dunes and racing the tide to load trucks by hand. It follows miner Frank Candile's account of that labor, and Quandamooka traditional owner Christine Moyle, whose family worked four generations of shifts in the same mines. Best heard standing on the beach, sand underfoot, picturing who shoveled it before you.
This audio guide was created using AI.