Southport Spit
place in Queensland, Australia
The Southport Spit (officially known as The Spit) is a spit and neighbourhood within the northern end of Main Beach, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is a permanent sand spit that separates the Southport Broadwater from the Pacific Ocean.
Geography
Seaworld Drive is the main street connecting the area of The Spit to the rest of Main Beach. Parklands and naturally vegetated sand dunes on the eastern ocean side of the Spit start in Main Beach at Kemp Street and Main Beach Parade and run continuously to the tip of the Spit.
History
There was a township called Moondarewa located on the southern tip of Stradbroke Island (now South Stradbroke Island). On 9 February 1881 the Queensland Government auctioned 156 town lots at Moondarewa which was described as "southern end of Stradbroke Island and opposite Southport" (. The name Moondarewa is a corruption of the Aboriginal name Moonjerrabah which was the name for a mosquito. Moondarewa was located in the area near where Seaworld is located today (27.9300°S 153.42556°E / -27.9300; 153.42556 (Moondarewa, Queensland)).
The Spit was formed between 1897 and 1898, a product of longshore drift when high seas broke through at Jumpinpin (27.7306°S 153.4453°E / -27.7306; 153.4453 (Jumpinpin)), a narrow section of land on Stradbroke Island. This made a new ocean passage, the Jumpinpin Channel, which divided Stradbroke Island in two (North Stradbroke Island and South Stradbroke Island).
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