The Gold Coast is located on the east coast of Australia along the Pacific Ocean. The City of Gold Coast includes suburbs, localities, towns and rural districts. The "Gold Coast" also became an easy way to refer to the
holiday strip from Southport to Coolangatta.
Yugambeh People
The Aboriginal people of Surfers Paradise and broader Gold Coast region are the Yugambeh people (various alternate spellings and also known as the Minyangbal, or Nganduwal). Specifically, the Kombumerri clan of the Yugambeh language group.
The name Yugambeh comes from the word for "no", a widespread practice in Aboriginal languages to identify a tribe by the word they used for a negative. (
Several early authors, including G. W. Earl (1846), W. Ridley (1866), and R. H. Mathews (1906) have drawn attention to this widespread and therefore probably old Australian practice of naming tribes by their word for no,….Tindale, (1974))
The correspondence of Dr. Stephen Simpson (1792–1869), the first Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Moreton Bay district said.
The inhabitants of the Sea-coast are no doubt the most numerous, a distinct Tribe occupying every Island or Inlet of the Sea from the River Tweed to Wide Bay—they are probably not overrated at 3000—upon the whole their condition is superior to that of the Inland Blacks, having more ample means of existence in the abundance of fish on the Sea-coast—they are consequently less migratory in their habits ...
It was usual that: A
man marries a woman who belongs to the same section and generation as his mother's brother's daughter, and who is, according to the terminology, a relative of the same kind. But she must come from another part of the country, and must not be closely related to him. The normal procedure was described to me as follows. A woman who is "father's sister" to a boy, possibly his own father's sister, would look out for a wife for him. Finding a woman who was her "sister", but not closely related to herself or her nephew, she would induce the latter to promise her daughter in marriage to the boy. Jefferies, (2011).
1820s
In 1823 explorer John Oxley
explored the Tweed River.
1840s
The schooner
Coolangatta is wrecked on the coast in 1846 close to the later town of that name.
1850s
The colony of Queensland was declared in 1859.
1860s
The township of Nerang was surveyed by Martin Lavelle in June 1865.
1870s
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| Hanlon's Hotel, Yatala, at the Ferry on the Albert River, ca. 1872, SLQLD |
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| Travelling outfitters wagon on the road between Brisbane and Nerang, near Hanlon's Ferry at Yatala |
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| Thomas Hanlon's Ferry Hotel at Yatala, QLD, 1872. Crossing at Yatala, and served the travellers using Cobb & Company's Royal Mail coach which passed through the village of Yatala and then on to the Pimpama Inn and Nerang. It was licensed in 1870 to Thomas Hanlon |
In 1874, The town of Southport is founded.
Johan Meyer buys land near Nerang River and begins developing sugar and transportation.
The former Tallebudgera Post Office was officially
opened in 1878 and was in operation until March 1958.
1880s
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| Bullocky on horseback with his bullock team near Nerang, QLD, ca. 1891, SLQLD |
In 1883, The town of Coolangatta is founded.
1n 1889, the South Coast railway line (also known as the Tweed railway line) from Brisbane, reached Southport.
Schmidt Farmhouse & Outbuildings is a heritage-listed
homestead at 3 Worongary Road, Worongary, City of Gold Coast, was built from the 1880s to c. 1910.
1890s
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| View of a property in the Mudgeeraba district, ca. 1891, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, 1891 |
Catholic parish of Southport established in 1892.
From 1893 to the early 1930s the
Maid of Sker made a weekly trip carrying
cargo from Brisbane to Southport and Nerang.
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| Billy Andrews was born at Nerang, Queensland and later settled in Murwillumbah in the Tweed River region of northern New South Wales. 1895. SLQLD |
1900s
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| The Maid of Sker at Nerang Wharf, circa 1900. Libraries QLD |
In 1901, the Southport School was established.
The Pacific Cable Station was built in 1902 in Southport, continuing to operate for sixty years, finally closing in 1962.
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| Boys' cricket team from The Southport School on the Gold Coast, 1907, SLQLD |
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| The Hotel Cecil, Southport, QLD, circa 1908, QLD Stories |
In 1908, surf lifesaving began on Queensland beaches.
In 1912, St Hilda's School, an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Southport
opened.
The Regnant Pictures opened on 1st October 1912.
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| A bora ground. The Executive Council at its meeting today approved of the reservation of 1(?) acre 24 roods in the parish of Elston town of Burleigh, for the purpose of the preservation of an aborigine bora ground. The reserve will he under the control of the Nerang Shire Council. Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. |
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| William 'Stanley' Brown (1896-1944) was born in Ipswich to William 'Billy' Brown (1870-1942) from Nerang and Topsy (1867-1930) from Cressbrook Station. Stanley attended Deebing Creek Aboriginal School as a child, and in 1913 was taken to the Aboriginal Mission at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg, where he met and married Mary Reed in 1915. Stanley enlisted in May 1918 and after training at Enoggera was assigned to the 2nd General Reinforcements for Egypt. He left Australia aboard the troopship HMAT Wiltshire in June 1918 and arrived in Egypt 5 weeks later. Here he was alloted to the 2nd Light Horse Regiment and joined them in the field at Wadi el Hamman, near the Sea of Galilee in September 1918, where they undertook long range patrols along the Mediterranean coast east of the Jordan River. After contracting malaria, Stanley was repatriated home in February 1919 and lived and worked in the Beaudesert area until his death in 1944. SLQLD |
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| Daily Record (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1897 - 1922), Saturday 23 September 1916, |
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| The Rest House, Coolangatta, QLD, Queensland's First AIF returned soldiers,, Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939), Saturday 15 November 1919 |
Patriotic Parade in Nerang Street, Southport, Qld - WW1 era, Kaye
The Yatala Pie Shop is an iconic pie shop in Yatala, City of Gold Coast, opened in 1914.
From 1914 to 1946, holiday
shacks popped up all along the South Coast.
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| Coolangatta on the Gold Coast, Qld - circa 1915, Kaye |
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| Railway line running behind the township of Coolangatta, Gold Coast, ca. 1915, SLQLD |
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| Pugh's (Queensland) official almanac, directory and gazetteer. (1917) |
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic resulted in the QLD-NSW border closing.
1920s
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| Panoramic view of a section of Coolangatta, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, 1920, SLQLD |
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| Holiday group at Coolangatta, Queensland, ca. 1920, SLQLD |
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| Hotel Coolangatta, Qld - 1920s, Kaye |
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| Panoramic view of the beach at Coolangatta, on the Gold Coast, 1920, SLQLD,. Panoramic view of Coolangatta looking towards Greenmount and Point Danger. Accommodation houses and shops line the town side of Marine Parade. The beach is lined with Norfolk Pine trees and a skating rink is on the beach in the foreground. |
The establishment of the Surfers Paradise Hotel in the
late 1920s, led to increased tourism.
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| Labrador State School, 1921, QLD, DEPT ED |
Southport War Memorial built in 1922.
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| Star of the Sea Convent at Southport, ca. 1922, SLQLD, Demolished 2016 |
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| St. Hilda's Anglican Girls' School at Southport in Queensland, 1922, SLQLD. (Established in 1912) |
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| Southport cinema, Regnant Pictures, QLD, SLQLD, 1922 (The building still stands in 2024 in use as a Chinese buffet restaurant) |
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| Surfing at Kirra beach on the Gold Coast, Qld - 1923, Kaye |
The Jubilee Bridge (1925–1966) was a bridge across the Nerang River. The bridge connected the suburbs of Southport to Main Beach on the Gold Coast, providing the first road connection to Surfers Paradise.
In 1925, James Freeman Cavill a Brisbane hotelier, opened the Surfers Paradise Hotel.
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| Surf Bathing on Coolangatta Beach, Gold Coast, Qld - 1920s, Kaye |
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| Beachgoers at Kirra Beach, Coolangatta, QLD, SLQLD |
The first bridge across Currumbin Creek was opened in 1926. It was later replaced by a new concrete bridge in the 1980s after being damaged by floods.
In 1928, Jazzland Dance Hall
opened at Coolangatta.
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| St Augustine's Catholic Church at Coolangatta, ca. 1928, SLQLD |
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| Construction of the Pacific Highway at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, ca. 1925, SLQLD |
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Homes in the sandhills of Tugun Beach, QLD, 1926, SLQLD (The name Tugun is believed to have derived from an Indigenous word of unknown dialect meaning "breaking waves")
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1930s
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| Location: Burleigh Head, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 1930, SLQLD |
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| Group of young people enjoying a day at the beach, Gold Coast, QLD, 1930, SLQLD |
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| Camping ground at Coolangatta Gold Coast, 1933, SLQLD |
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| Surf lifesaving boat, Coolangatta, QLD, ca. 1933, SLQLD |
The town of Elston is officially renamed Surfers Paradise in 1933.
In 1934, Broadbeach is surveyed.
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| The Coolangatta Surf Lifesaving Club with the rope and reel in 1934. SLQLD |
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| View of Coolangatta Beach from the Greenmount end, QLD, ca. 1935, Kaye |
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| Aerial view of Mermaid Beach Gold Coast ca 1935, SLQLD |
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| Panorama of Coolangatta Beach from Greenmount Hill towards Kirra Point, ca. 1935, SLQLD |
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| Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 - 1949), Friday 24 January 1936 |
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| Main Beach Pavilion at Southport, 1935. Several early model motor vehicles and a utility parked outside the Pavilion at Southport. SLQLD |
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| Friends posing on Kirra Beach, 1938, SLQLD |
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| Marie McKenna and Gladys Cooling at Southport, Gold Coast, December 1938, SLQLD |
In 1938, the Art Deco Hotel Cecil opened at Southport.
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| Marine Parade, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia - circa 1938, Kaye |
Passenger flights took off from Coolangatta Airport for the first time in 1939 (Gold Coast Airport ). Coolangatta is an Aboriginal word meaning "Place of Good View".
1940s and WWII
Queensland became a military state. Read more  |
| Lieutenant de Burgh Persse leading the Beaudesert troop ot the 1 4th Light Horse i Regiment past the Southport Town Hall. Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Saturday 14 December 1940, |
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| Lieutenant (Lt) (later Captain) Sydney Swain Appleby, 2/14 Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry), on his horse 'Steamboat' at Southport showground. The 2/14 Light Horse paraded in Southport for the last time before being disamalgamated in December 1940. Lt Appleby later enlisted in the Second AIF and served with the Far East Liaison Office (FELO) in Hollandia, Morotai and Labuan. AWM |
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| The Hotel Cecil, circa 1940.. Southport, QLD, QLD Stories |
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| Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Thursday 26 December 1940 |
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| Kirra Beach and Surf Pavilion at Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Qld - 1940s, Kaye |
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| Pacific Highway crossing Currumbin Creek near Palm Beach, Qld - circa 1940s, Kaye |
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| Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1965), Tuesday 19 October 1943 |
During World War II, the Gold Coast was a popular rest and recreation destination for combat troops, with many American, New Zealand and English servicemen and women visiting the area.
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| Surfers Paradise Hotel at Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Qld - 1940s, Kaye |
Currumbin Bird Sanctuary (later Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary) opens in 1947.
The Town of South Coast, a local government area, was created through the amalgamation of Coolangatta and Southport.
On 10 March 1949, a Lockheed Lodestar aircraft became airborne at Coolangatta, for a flight to Brisbane. Before reaching a height of 300 feet (90 m) it suddenly pitched nose-up, stalled and crashed onto its belly beyond the end of the airstrip.
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| Brisbane-bound train, PB15 locomotive, leaving Coolangatta, Gold Coast, ca. 1949, SLQLD |
1950s
The era of American style motels.
The Gold Coast was
renown for its bars and beer gardens, pools, tennis courts, dance floors and bandstands.
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| South Coast Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1929 - 1954), Wednesday 12 July 1950 |
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| Nerang Street, Southport, Qld - circa 1950, Kaye |
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| Traffic passes over the Jubilee Bridge, Gold Coast, 1940-1950, SLQLD |
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| Main Street (Griffith Street) Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Qld - 1940s, Kaye |
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| Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, ca. 1951, SLQLD |
Fleays Wildlife Park was built from 1952 to 1983.
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| Cavill Avenue, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Qld - 1950s, Kaye |
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| Pacific Highway, Surfers Paradise, Qld - 1950s, Kaye |
The area was nicknamed the "Gold Coast" from 1950 due to the cost and flashiness.
Residential canals were first built in the Gold Coast in the 1950s.
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| South Coast News (Southport, Qld. : 1952 - 1954), Saturday 20 September 1952 |
An unnamed cyclone hit in February 1954, leading to at least 26 deaths and extensive flooding.
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| South Coast News (Southport, Qld. : 1952 - 1954), Saturday 6 February 1954 |
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| Souvenir of Coolangatta, QLD, 1957, HJ |
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| Fun on the Gold Coast, QLD, in 1957, HJ |
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| Fun on the Gold Coast, QLD, in 1957, HJ |
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| At Jack Evans Porpoise Pool. Coolangatta, QLD, 1957, HJ |
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| Florida Car-O-Tel Motel, Renondo Avenue, Miami.1957, HJ |
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| Typical Gold Coast hotel, QLD, 1950s, AU |
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| Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Qld - 1957, Kaye |
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| Shopping Centre at Surfers Paradise, Qld - 1957, SLQLD |
In 1958, the Town of South Coast renamed to Town of Gold Coast.
In 1959, Town of Gold Coast renamed City of Gold Coast.
The first high rise on the Gold Coast, "Kinkabool", was built in 1959 at Surfers Paradise.
In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian firm began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland
[ and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy.
1960s
On 2 April 1960 and after four decades of lobbying, the Southport General Hospital was officially opened.
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| Sea Breeze, Cavill Avenue, Surfers Paradise, 1961, Queensland State Archives |
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| 1960s, Gold Coast, 1933, SLQLD |
In 1962, Lido Arcade in Surfers Paradise opens.
Magic Mountain was an amusement park in Nobby Beach, which operated from 1962 to 1991.
......Miss Margaret Kay at her Aboriginal Museum at South Tweed Heads. The children were greatly impressed by the relics that can be seen there. A pointing bone used in ancient rituals, boomerangs, spears, stone axes, nulla- nullas and decorative beads were all eagerly inspected by the
visitors. Then the site of the Bora ring was reached. Miss Kay explained that this was used to give feasts to visiting tribes and for other ceremonies. The Kipper ring, smaller in size and some distance away from the other, was used for initiation ceremonies. This is the one from which the female members of the tribe were excluded.....The seagull. Vo.3 (November 1964)
In 1964, surfer Phyllis O'Donnell wins first Women's World Surfing Championship.
The Surfers Paradise meter maids were first instituted by entrepreneur Bernie Elsey in 1965, to save motorists from parking fines.
"The Sands" (building) and "Paradise Towers" constructed in Surfers Paradise in 1966. The Gold Coast Bridge was also rebuilt.
In March 1966, a World War II sea-mine washed up onto the Surfers Paradise beach. Read
more.
In 1967, "Garfield Towers" built in Surfers Paradise.
In 1967, Bruce Small with the slogan "Think Big, Vote Small", he was elected Mayor of the Gold Coast, holding office till 1973.
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| Meter Maid, Surfers Paradise, QLD, September 1969, Queensland State Archives |
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| Griffith Street, Coolangatta, Australia - 1960s, Kaye |
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| Swagman Arms Motel, Tugun, Qld. Kaye |
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| Pacific Highway, Surfers Paradise - circa 1965, Vintage QLD |
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| Nerang Street, Southport, QLD, 1969, SLQLD |
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| Surfers Paradise Beach, QLD, 1969, Queensland State Archives |
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| Woolworths, Sundale Shopping Centre, Southport, QLD, 1969, Queensland State Archives |
1970s |
| The Esplanade, Surfers Paradise, QLD, Queensland State Archives |
In 1971, the population is 75,862.
Sea World opened at Southport in 1971.
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| The Shore Courtesy Inn, Surfers Paradise - early 1970s. The latest 15 storey luxury motor inn completed in December 1970. The shore has 56 luxurious One Bedroom apartments and a fully licensed restaurant. Kaye |
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| Birdlife Park, Gold Coast, Qld - 1970s. ird Life Park was created by Keith Williams who bought the Marineland site at The Spit on the Gold Coast - 1970s. Lee Jon Souten driving the tram Kaye |
Surfers Paradise Beach, QLD, September 1971, Archives Qld
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| Surfers Paradise, QLD, 1970s, PC |
Also opening in 1971, Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales,
Billabong was founded in the Gold Coast in 1973 by Gordon and Rena Merchant.
Surfers Paradise floods in 1974.
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| Isle of Capri, Gold Coast, QLD, 1974, Queensland State Archives |
The Schoolies (year 12 leavers) holidaying on the Gold Coast occurred from at least the 1970s.
In 1976, Gladys Lillian Moncrieff, an Australian singer who was so successful in musical theatre and recordings that she became known as ''Australia's Queen of Song'' and ''Our Glad'', died at Pindara Private Hospital, on the northern end of the Gold Coast.
The Gold Coast Marathon first held in 1979.
1980sLots of skyscrapers built from the 1980s.
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| Looking north along Surfers Paradise (from building called Viscount on the Beach), Gold Coast, Qld - 1980, Kaye |
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| Looking south along Surfers Paradise (from building called Viscount on the Beach), Gold Coast, Qld - 1980. Kaye |
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| Gold Coast, Qld, February 1989, Queensland State Archives |
The white-shoe brigade of property developers and police corruption, particularly under the leadership of Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
In 1981, population: 177,264.
Dreamworld officially opened on 15 December 1981.
"Goodbye Paradise", a 1983 Australian film directed by Carl Schultz, centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett), writes a book exposing police corruption.
The Coolangatta Gold ironman race begins in 1984.
Cade’s County Waterpark opened in 1984 (later Wet’n’Wild)
In 1984 Coolangatta Centenary commemorations.
Conrad Jupiters Casino (later The Star Gold Coast) opens in 1985.
The Gold Coast City Art Gallery located in Surfers Paradise opened in 1986.
Carrara Stadium opens in 1987. And, Gold Coast College of Advanced Education established.
Sanctuary Cove opened with performance by Frank Sinatra in 1988.
Bond University, Australia's first private not-for-profit university, located in Robina on the Gold Coast, opened on 15 May 1989.
1990s
Australia Fair shopping centre opens in Southport in 1990.
In 1991, Movie World amusement park opens in Oxenford.
Village Roadshow Studios located in Oxenford, commenced in June 1991.
Population: 301,559 in 1991.
The film, "Muriel's Wedding" shot in Coolangatta and other Gold Coast locations in 1994.
Yugambeh Museum, Language and Heritage Research Centre opens in 1995.
BusTech Pty Ltd was established in 1995 when its first bus was completed in its original Ernest, Queensland, factory.
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| Movie World, Gold Coast, QLD, 1994 |
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| Gold Coast, QLD. 1994 |
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| Surfers or Broadbeach, 1994, QLD |
In 1996 Moroccan (building) constructed in Surfers Paradise.
Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame opens in 1999.
Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise is the heart of the Gold Coast, with its nightlife, dining options, and beach. There is shops, entertainment like Ripley's Believe It or Not and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
2000sImperial Hotel Gold Coast (formerly the Palazzo Versace Gold Coast) opens 2000.
In 2001, the first series of reality TV show
Big Brother shot at Dreamworld compound.
The Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), located on the Gold Coast Highway in Broadbeach, was opened on 29 June 2004, at a cost of A$167 million.
Construction of the Towers of Chevron Renaissance commenced in September 2001 and was completed in December 2004.
Q1 Tower is a 322.5-metre (1,058 ft) supertall skyscraper on the Gold Coast was the world's tallest residential building from 2005 to 2011, to become the tallest building in Australia,
In 2006, The Wave was built, a residential skyscraper with an unusual appearance on the Gold Coast, with a height of 111 m (364 ft) and has 34 floors.
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| The white building is the Convention Center and the building on the right is Jupiter's Casino.Rob and Stephanie Levy's photo, licensed as CC BY 2.0. |
WhiteWater World water park opened in 2006.
In 2007, Gold Coast Titans rugby club formed.
In 2007, Circle on Cavil, located in the heart of the Gold Coast's Surfers Paradise, a high rise residential development was built.
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| Surfers Paradise, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, 2009, Arthur Lim |
Robina Stadium opened, 2008.
Gold Coast Football Club formed in 2009.
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| Surfers Paradise from the air, Gold Coast, Australia, 2009, David McKelvey |
In 2010, The Oracle, a $850 million two-tower luxury apartment development at Broadbeach is built.
2011, population: 557,822.
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| Gold Coast canals, QLD, CC0 Public Domain |
Soul, a 243 m (797 ft) tall residential tower and hotel on the Esplanade, close to Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise, built in 2012.
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| Cavill Ave, Surfer Paradise, QLD, October 20, 2012, Dawn Sajn |
Gold Coast University Hospital, opened on 28 September 2013.
In 2014, G:link, also known as the Gold Coast Light Rail, is built.
Gold Coast Cops, an Australian factual television series following the work of Queensland Police Service officers on the Gold Coast was made in 2014, returning in 2015.
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| Surfers Paradise, QLD, Dylan O'Donnell |
In 2016, four people killed in accident on Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld.
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| The high rises of Surfers Paradise as a backdrop. Currumbin beach, 2017, Christy Gallois |
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast.
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| Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD, 2020, Blues Alive |
On 2 January 2023, two Eurocopter EC130s collided mid-air and crashed near Sea World theme park in the city of Gold Coast.
Around The Gold Coast
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| Marina Mirage shopping centre seen from The Broadwater, Queensland, Kgbo |
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| Gold Coast, QLD |
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| St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Coolangatta, QLD, was built in 1926 and celebrated its centenary in 2025. Italian Romanesque architecture |
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| The Pink Poodle Motel was built by Stewart and Lawrence Price and Hugh and May (Billie) Woods on the Gold Coast Highway and opened its doors on Boxing Day 1967 |
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| Maid of Sker. An old iron paddle steamer from 1884, now a historical landmark by the Nerang River |
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| Gold Coast, QLD, https://www.publicdomainpictures.net |
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| Photo of the Schmidt Farmhouse at Worongary, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.Shiftchange |
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| Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum, Worongary, QLD |
Things To Do and Places To Go
Gold Coast Historical Society Inc.
Address: 8 Elliott Street, Surfers Paradise
Gold Coast Hinterland Heritage Museum
Where: Mudgeeraba Heritage Centre
Address: 238 Mudgeeraba Road (cnr Scullen Street, Mudgeeraba)
Gold Coast Family History Society
Address: Rm 3, Bicentennial Building, 833 Nerang-Southport Road, Nerang
14th Light Horse & National Servicemen Assoc. Museum
Address: 3 Worongary Road, Worongary (adjacent to Mudgeeraba Showground)
Southport Military Museum
Address: QLD Naval Brigade Drill Hall, Owen Park, 201 Queen Street, Southport
Surf World Museum
Where: 1st floor Honeyworld, 35 Tomewin Street, Currumbin
When: Daily, 10am – 5pm
Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Museum
Where: Cnr Martens Street and Plantation Road, Beenleigh
A historic shelter overlooking Kirra Beach, dating back over a century.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, AU 4223
The Jebribillum Bora Park (also known as Jebbribillum) is located on the south eastern corner of the Gold Coast Highway and 6th Avenue in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia. It contains one of the last intact bora rings on the Gold Coast.
Gold Coast Light Horse Education Museum, Worongary.
