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Jumpinpin, South Stradbroke Island, Queensland, looking north, 9.00am on Friday 17 July 1998, Lance Billman, photographer

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Jumpinpin, South Stradbroke Island, Queensland, looking north, 9.00am on Friday 17 July 1998

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Lance Billman, photographer

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The natives pronounced the name Jumpinpin the meaning of which is variously given as 'big fella wave' and the root of the pandanus palm. The latter is probably the more likely, as the area was a well known meeting ground of the natives who feasted on these roots. The narrow, pandanus topped sand ridge, through which the sea subsequently broke, was known as Dhuleen, an oyster. In 1892, the coastal schooner Bellingen was wrecked on this ridge and two years later the Cambus Wallace. In 1898 the sea broke through the narrow sand ridge, and formed the Jumpinpin bar. Since those days the bar itself and the banks surrounding it have never remained the same for long at a time. It is said to have been much wider than we have known it in recent years and the southern sand spit further out

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