Bulwer Island is a
reclaimed tidal mangrove island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An isla ...
at the mouth of the
Brisbane River in the suburb of
Pinkenba,
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
,
Queensland
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,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
. It is named for
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the British
Colonial Secretary who
separated Queensland from
New South Wales
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in 1859 and made
Sir George Bowen its first Governor.
Air crash
In May 1961 a TAA DC-4 airliner crashed onto Bulwer Island during landing at
Brisbane Airport. The pilot had suffered cardiac arrest and slumped over the control column preventing the co-pilot from regaining control before the plane dived into the mud of the island.
Oil refinery
Land was reclaimed joining the island to the mainland commencing in 1963. An
oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liq ...
commenced operations in 1965, and was converted to an import terminal in 2015.
Lighthouse
A
lighthouse, known as
Bulwer Island Light, stood on the island between 1912 and 1983, as part of a pair of
leading light. In 1983 it was replaced by a skeletal tower and relocated to the
Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane.
See also
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List of islands of Australia
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List of oil refineries
This is a list of oil refineries. '' Oil & Gas Journal'' publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each proce ...
References
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Islands of Queensland
Pinkenba, Queensland