Godwin Beach is a coastal rural

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, Australia. In the , Godwin Beach had a population of 462 people.

History

The locality is named after Charles Godwin who owned a fish cannery by the beach from 1897 to 1907. In January 1911 the steamer ''Eastern'' was stranded on the Salamander Bank (), north-west of Bulwer on Moreton Island, and barrels of oil had drifted off into the sea. Godwin was employed to salvage these barrels and transport them to

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. While doing so, on 20 February 1911 he was thrown from his boat in rough seas off Toorbul Point and he drowned. Circa 1999, a monument commemorating Godwin was erected on the beachfront. In the , Godwin Beach recorded a population of 444 people, 49.1% female and 50.9% male. The median age of the Godwin Beach population was 41 years, 4 years above the national median of 37. 77.3% of people living in Godwin Beach were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 7%, New Zealand 5.4%, Cambodia 0.7%, Hong Kong 0.7%, Germany 0.7%. 92.3% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.1% Thai, 0.9% Tagalog, 0.9% German, 0.9% Greek, 0% Gaelic (Scotland). In the , Godwin Beach had a population of 462 people.

Attractions

There is a memorial to Charles Godwin along the beachfront.

References

{{Moreton Bay Region Suburbs of Moreton Bay Region Localities in Queensland