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Coordinates: 52°19′05″N 1°16′26″E / 52.318°N 1.274°E / 52.318; 1.274
Stradbroke ( /ˈstrædbrʊk/ STRAD-brook) is a village in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. It is in the Mid Suffolk District and part of the East of England Region of England. Stradbroke is near to the small Suffolk town of Eye and the larger Norfolk market town of Diss. It has a population of around 1330 (mid 2005).
Stradbroke is midway between Norwich and Ipswich and within easy driving distance of the Suffolk coastal towns of Southwold and Aldeburgh. By train from Diss it is an hour and a half to London.It has a Mon-Sat bus service. Sunday service withdrawn and most routes as of the 1st April. For a full list look at the page List of bus routes in Central Suffolk
The village is the centre of a working rural community set amidst quiet rolling countryside. It has a Post Office, 3 pubs, convenience store, a library, butcher, baker, a swimming pool and gym, playing fields, community centre, doctors surgery and numerous social and sporting activities. The village has a traditional primary school and a secondary school.
Coordinates: 23°0′S 143°0′E / 23°S 143°E / -23; 143 Queensland is the second-largest and third-most populous state of Australia, located in the northeast of the country. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, southwest and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. Queensland has a population of 4,580,700, concentrated along the coast and particularly in the state's South East. The state is the world's sixth largest subnational entity, with an area of 1,852,642 km2. The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane, Australia's third largest city. Referred to as the 'Sunshine State', Queensland is home to 10 of Australia's 30 largest cities and is the nation's third largest economy.
Queensland was first occupied by Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who arrived at least 40,000 years ago. The first European to land in Queensland was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1607. In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain. The colony of New South Wales was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip at Sydney; New South Wales at that time included all of what is now Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania. Queensland was explored in subsequent decades until the establishment of a penal colony at Brisbane in 1824 by John Oxley. Penal transportation ceased in 1839 and free settlement permitted in 1842. Queensland was separated from New South Wales, forming a self-governing colony, on 6 June 1859, a date now celebrated state-wide as Queensland Day. Queensland achieved statehood with the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901.
Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, was a large sand island that formed much of the eastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland until the late 19th century. Today the island is split into two by the Jumpinpin Channel.
The first historically documented contact between Europeans and the Stradbroke Island Aborigines was 1803 when Matthew Flinders called in to take on freshwater supplies. The next documented contact was between shipwreck survivors Thomas Pamphlett, Richard Parsons and John Finnegan who were helped and provided with food, shelter and a canoe by the local Stradbroke Aborigines. There are persistent stories that there was an earlier European contact with survivors of a Spanish or Portuguese shipwreck known locally as the Stradbroke Island Galleon. There exists a body of oral history and some artefacts which are called on in support of this notion, but it is a contentious issue.
Initial white settlement of Stradbroke Island was at Amity Point where a pilot station was established. More fertile soil, good sources of fresh water and a better harbour was found at the present location of Dunwich so settlement soon concentrated there. Dunwich became a staging point where larger ships were unloaded of cargo which was placed into smaller vessels to be carried over the sand bars of Brisbane River and up to the penal settlement of Brisbane. The Dunwich settlement was in close proximity to a major Aboriginal camp at Myora Spring. Whites and Europeans generally lived in reasonable harmony though there were moments of conflict as would be expected within the context of two very different cultures meeting for the first time.