The area covers the suburbs of Clontarf, Kippa-Ring, Margate, Moreton Island, Newport, Redcliffe, Rothwell, Scarborough and Woody Point.

[5] The area's first European visitors arrived on 17 July 1799, aboard the Norfolk, a British colonial sloop commanded by Matthew Flinders.

Oxley recommended Red Cliff Point for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore.

[2] The settlement, along the banks of what is now called Humpybong Creek in Redcliffe town centre, consisted of small, temporary dwellings with gardens and vegetables planted.

However the lack of a reliable water supply, attacks by Aboriginal people, large mosquito numbers, and insufficient facilities for safe anchorage[3] meant that the settlement needed to be moved after eight months.

Local Aboriginal people called these empty buildings "oompie bongs", anglicised to mean, in reverse, 'dead house', and the name was given to the entire Redcliffe peninsula.

On 11 July 2010 the new three lane Ted Smout Memorial Bridge opened, and at 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) is claimed to be Australia's longest.

The Newport development has proposed a new retail and town centre for the suburb which is currently lacking its own local services.

A seaside location with 22 kilometres (14 mi) of coastline and a mainly working class population, Redcliffe has a high emphasis on sport and recreation.

Formed in 2000 from a merger between Margate and Redcliffe Soccer Clubs, the team competes in the Brisbane Premier League.

To celebrate the start of the Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race, the Festival of Sails event is held yearly on Good Friday.

The Redcliffe Aero Club is based at the airport and provides pilot training, aircraft hire and charter services.

Community radio station 99 Seven is based in Redcliffe and covers the city and surrounding Pine Rivers and northern Brisbane suburbs.

The station, founded in 1986, broadcasts on the 99.7 MHz FM frequency (4RED) and offers a broad range of genres in programming and music.

The film Swimming Upstream starring Geoffrey Rush used the Redcliffe War Memorial Pool as one of its locations.

Redcliffe has a high number of Olympic Games athletes from its relatively small population, including swimmers Leisel Jones, Geoff Huegill, Jessicah Schipper and Tarnee White who trained in Scarborough under coach Ken Wood.

Rugby league players Arthur Beetson, Petero Civoniceva, Michael Crocker, Adam Mogg, Travis Norton, Tom Opacic, Brent Tate and Daly Cherry-Evans were either born in Redcliffe or started their sporting careers from playing here.