Wellington Point

Wellington Point Redland City, Queensland
Residential street in Wellington Point
Wellington Point
Coordinates	27°29′13″S 153°14′20″E / 27.487°S 153.239°E / -27.487; 153.239Coordinates: 27°29′13″S 153°14′20″E / 27.487°S 153.239°E / -27.487; 153.239
Population	11,787 (2011 census)
Postcode(s)	4160
Location	22 km (14 mi) from Brisbane GPO
LGA(s)	Redland City
State electorate(s)	Cleveland
Federal Division(s)	Bowman
Suburbs around Wellington Point: Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Moreton Bay Birkdale Wellington Point Ormiston Birkdale Alexandra Hills Ormiston

Wellington Point is a suburb of Redland City, about 22 km south-east of Brisbane, Queensland. The suburb derives its name from Wellington Point which extends prominently into Moreton Bay.

The point and its adjoining waters are used extensively for aquatic sports. The area is also a popular day-trip destination. While it is predominantly urban, Wellington Point retains a seaside and village atmosphere.

Wellington Point is largely residential and adjoins Birkdale in the west and Ormiston to the south east.

In the 2011 census, Wellington Point recorded a population of 11,787 people, 50.9% female and 49.1% male.

The median age of the Wellington Point population was 39 years, 2 years above the national median of 37.

73.1% of people living in Wellington Point were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 7.7%, New Zealand 5.1%, South Africa 1.8%, Scotland 1.2%, Netherlands 0.5%.

90.8% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.5% German, 0.5% Italian, 0.4% Afrikaans, 0.4% Punjabi, 0.3% Finnish.

The people of the Quandamooka lived in the Redlands long before white settlement. Food was plentiful and skillfully hunted, fished and collected. Tribes of the Yuggera language group inhabited the whole area, with the tribe inhabiting the mainland coastal strip stretching from Redland Bay to the mouth of the Brisbane River being called the Koobenpul.

It is considered that the first Europeans to travel through Wellington Point were three shipwrecked timber getters, Pamphlett, Finnegan and Parsons in 1823.

Wellington Point was named by surveyors Robert Dixon and James Warner in 1842 after the Duke of Wellington who led the army of the United Kingdom in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The bay formed in part by Wellington Point was named Waterloo Bay. The first European settlers arrived in Wellington Point in the mid-1860s after the first land sales of 1864 at which one of the big purchasers was Thomas Lodge Murray Prior. Another purchaser was Captain Louis Hope, who built Ormiston House and established a major sugar plantation and milling operation in Ormiston.