Longshore drift moves 500,000 cubic metres of sand per year northwards past Letitia Spit.

[3] The headland, Cook Island and the Danger Reefs, were made from a lava flow from the now extinct Tweed Volcano.

(Point Danger) On the South Side of this headland we had the satisfaction to discover a considerable river with an apparent clear entrance."

In 1828 Henry John Rous (Captain of HMS Rainbow) surveyed Oxley's Tweed River, the name used today.

Fingal Head would be named as such by Surveyor Robert Dixon who mapped the coastal districts between Brisbane Town and the Brunswick River in the winter months of 1840.

Dixon's party was also assisted at that time by the master and crew of the schooner Letitia, which they found had entered the Tweed.

[5] The local Aboriginal people were the Minjungbal, but white settlement significantly impacted the population in the late 19th to early 20th century.

The other top responses for country of birth were England 3.1%, New Zealand 2.8%, Hong Kong 0.6%, Germany 0.6%, Czech Republic 0.6%.

88.8% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.6% Bandjalang, 0.6% Italian, 0.6% Gumbaynggir, 0.6% Czech.

A provisional light station was established on the head in 1872 and in 1878 a proper lighthouse, built as a sandstone construction in a round design, was inaugurated.

In 1999, SBS television commissioned a documentary called Surfing the Healing Wave about that competition, as part of an Unfinished Business - Reconciling the Nation series.