Tourist attraction
Point Lookout
Clifftop headland with ocean views, migrating whales, and a lighthouse over a wartime wreck.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Point Lookout on Brisbane's North Stradbroke Island turns on the wreck of the American Liberty ship Rufus King, run aground on a sandbar below this headland one wartime night in nineteen forty-two. It follows the disputed reasoning of her captain, torn between two channels, and the rumors that swirled around him afterward. Locals from Amity Point spent weeks wading into the surf for whatever washed free of her hold. Best heard looking north along the cliffs, toward the lighthouse that still stands watch over the bar.
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