 Other marine biology stations opened in Queensland as well - Lizard Island (run by the Australian Museum), Orpheus Island (James Cook University) and One Tree Island (University of Sydney), as well as the Moreton Bay Research Station (University of Queensland) at Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island.Full ownership of the Station was transferred to the University of Queensland from 1980.While facilities were fairly rudimentary, unlike other research stations around the world, it had the advantage of being metres from the reef it studied.