45-729: Download coordinates as: Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast , Queensland , Australia. It is the Gold Coast's southernmost suburb and it borders New South Wales . In the 2021 census , Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people. Coolangatta is situated in the Bundjalung traditional Aboriginal country. The Yugambeh people are local custodians in the Bundjalung traditional Aboriginal country. Yugambeh language (also known as Yugumbir, Jugambel, Jugambeir, Jugumbir, Jukam, Jukamba)
90-509: A commercial centre soon followed. Land was advertised for sale in December 1912, being allotments in sections 3, 14, 25, [16 & 17], town of Coolangatta and portion 44 (special lease) parish of Tallebudgera, with 7 allotments facing either Marine Parade or Griffith Street. A further 35 allotments immediately south of Coolangatta railway station and 2 further allotments facing McLean Street were also advertised for sale. Prior to 1914, Coolangatta
135-556: A customs office, boatshed and government wharf. The South Coast railway was extended from Nerang railway station to Tweed Heads in New South Wales and opened on 10 August 1903. Coolangatta railway station was located to the south of the intersection of Griffith and Dutton Streets ( 28°10′07″S 153°32′12″E / 28.1685°S 153.5367°E / -28.1685; 153.5367 ( Coolangatta railway station (former) ) ). The terminus Tweed Heads railway station
180-580: A larger city. The Australian usage is closer to the American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and
225-661: A local government entity from 1879 until 1949. On 11 November 1879, the Nerang Division was created as one of 74 divisions within Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 652. On 6 July 1883, Southport Division was formed from part of subdivision No. 1 of Nerang Division and part of subdivision No. 1 of Coomera Division . With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902 ,
270-698: A meeting room available in their council chambers for use as a temporary school room and the Queensland Department of Public Instruction sent school furniture and one teacher from Brisbane, and Coolangatta Provisional School commenced operation on 10 February 1919. The next task was to construct a school building with two classrooms on the school reserve at 1 Garrick Street (corner of Powell Street, 28°10′03″S 153°32′02″E / 28.1675°S 153.5338°E / -28.1675; 153.5338 ( Coolangatta State School (former) ) ) on Kirra Hill. Although expected to be completed in six months, it
315-631: A parish in its own right with the Twin Towns parish now serving only Coolangatta. On Monday 31 April 1925 Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone of St Augustine's Catholic Church. On Sunday 19 December 1926 Duhig returned to officially open and bless the church. The church was built in a commanding position overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Italian Romanesque style. The tower is 110 feet (34 m) high. St Augustine's Catholic School
360-616: A shared economy. The Tweed River supports a thriving fishing fleet , and the seafood is a local specialty offered in the restaurants and clubs of the holiday and retirement region on both sides of the state border. There are three hills in Coolangatta: Point Danger is a headland on the Queensland/New South Wales border ( 28°09′51″S 153°33′06″E / 28.1641°S 153.5516°E / -28.1641; 153.5516 ( Point Danger ) ). It
405-554: Is an important landmark and tourist destination and is the site of the Point Danger Lighthouse . Coolangatta symbolises the terminus of the Gold Coast and the long strip of beach that begins at Main Beach forty kilometres to the north. Coolangatta and its surrounds were the home of two early tourist attractions on the Gold Coast. Jack Evans Porpoise Pool which was built at Snapper Rocks in 1957 and Gilltraps Auto Museum which
450-497: Is at 136 Musgrave Street ( 28°10′08″S 153°32′05″E / 28.1689°S 153.5346°E / -28.1689; 153.5346 ( Coolangatta Magistrates Court ) ). Coolangatta Police Station is on the corner of Musgrave and Mclean Streets ( 28°10′08″S 153°32′04″E / 28.1689°S 153.5345°E / -28.1689; 153.5345 ( Coolangatta police station ) ). Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are
495-577: Is no secondary school in Coolangatta. The nearest secondary school is Palm Beach Currumbin State High School in Palm Beach to the north-west. The Coolangatta campus of TAFE Queensland is a technical college at 5 Scott Street ( 28°10′14″S 153°32′24″E / 28.1705°S 153.5399°E / -28.1705; 153.5399 ( Coolangatta TAFE ) ). Coolangatta Magistrates Court
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#1732891479525540-580: Is one of the Australian Aboriginal languages in areas that include the Beenleigh , Beaudesert , Gold Coast, Logan, Scenic Rim , Albert River , Coolangatta, Coomera , Logan River , Pimpama , Tamborine and Tweed River Valley, within the local government boundaries of the City of Gold Coast , City of Logan , Scenic Rim Regional Council and the Tweed River Valley. Coolangatta was one of
585-466: Is split between the City of Newcastle and City of Lake Macquarie LGAs; and Woodville , which is split between the City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council LGAs. In unincorporated areas , localities are declared by the relevant state authority. Nerang Divisional Board The Shire of Nerang was a local government area in South East Queensland , Australia. The shire existed as
630-546: The Coolangatta Chronicle to become the Border Star . The Border Star newspaper ceased publication in 1942. In January 1919, the border between Queensland and New South Wales was closed to all traffic in response to the 1918 flu pandemic in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease north into Queensland. People found themselves stranded on the one side of the border unable to return to their homes or employment on
675-490: The 2021 census , Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people. Coolangatta State School is a government primary (Prep to Year 6) school for boys and girls at Stapylton Street ( 28°10′19″S 153°31′43″E / 28.1720°S 153.5287°E / -28.1720; 153.5287 ( Coolangatta State School ) ). In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 184 students with 19 teachers (14 full-time equivalent) and 11 non-teaching staff (8 full-time equivalent). There
720-672: The City of Brisbane and the New South Wales border with only four. The former ten were: The four resulting local government areas were: The Order came into effect on 10 June 1949, when the first elections were held. William Stephens , a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council and mayor of the South Brisbane City Council ,
765-987: The Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been a process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
810-546: The Kirra Beach Pavilion , Kirra Beach Shelter Shed and the remains of Jack Evans Porpoise Pool are on the Gold Coast Local Heritage Register. The border fence and gates that until recently were a characteristic of the area have now been removed but the sense of the border remains at Boundary Street running along the ridge of the headland between Queensland and New South Wales. The headland itself
855-504: The Tamar . Selectors followed in the 1860s and a small settlement was established. In 1883 a township was surveyed. A map of the town in 1885 shows the results of a recent land sale where several town lots were sold. Government surveyor Henry Schneider named the area Coolangatta after the shipwreck while surveying in 1883 for the land auction in March 1884. As a border town Coolangatta included
900-732: The Coolangatta Town Council decided to rename it after HMS Rainbow, a sixth-rate frigate, commanded by Captain Henry John Rous , used in surveys of the area in 1828. There are three neighbourhoods within Coolangatta: Point Danger Lighthouse is located on the Point Danger headland ( 28°09′54″S 153°33′03″E / 28.1650°S 153.5507°E / -28.1650; 153.5507 ( Point Danger Lighthouse ) ). There are three beaches in
945-748: The Methodist Church amalgamating into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, the church became Coolangatta Uniting Church. In June 1988 the Uniting Church in Coolangatta and Tweed Heads merged to form the Twin Towns Uniting Church. In 1992 the growing population in Banora Point in New South Wales resulted in the decision to open a Uniting Church there and in the late 1990s, that church became
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#1732891479525990-618: The Nerang Division became the Shire of Nerang on 31 March 1903. On 12 June 1914, part of Nerang Shire was separated to enable the establishment of the Town of Coolangatta . In 1927 the council met in their offices at Mudgeeraba . On 9 December 1948, as part of a major reorganisation of local government in South East Queensland , an Order in Council replacing ten former local government areas between
1035-526: The Queensland borders were closed to most types of traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Border crossing points were either closed or had a Queensland Police checkpoint to allow entry to those with an appropriate permit. Griffith Street at Coolangatta was one of the police checkpoints, while other crossing points were closed. Coolangatta and its immediate neighbouring "Twin Town" Tweed Heads in New South Wales have
1080-494: The earliest settlements on the Gold Coast . Once again focused on a steep headland at Point Danger the area was occupied by Europeans from at least 1828 by a convict station and red cedar getters soon followed. On 18 August 1846, the schooner Coolangatta was wrecked on Kirra / Bilinga Beach adjacent to a creek during a storm. A topsail schooner of 83 feet (25 m) in length and 88 long tons (89 t ), Coolangatta
1125-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
1170-457: The name Point Danger to the headland north of the Tweed River . So while Cook created the name, he did not assign it to the current location. Rainbow Bay is offshore from the south-east of the suburb ( 28°09′50″S 153°32′49″E / 28.1638°S 153.5470°E / -28.1638; 153.5470 ( Rainbow Bay ) ). It was originally called Shark/Sharks Bay until 1926 when
1215-509: The names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to,
1260-445: The other side. Quarantine stations and camps were established to house travelers and stranded residents. One impact on the border closure was the need to duplicate services across the twin towns on the Queensland side of the border, as at 1 February 1919, Coolangatta had no doctor, no pharmacist, no milkman, no butcher and no undertaker. Nor did Coolangatta have a school nor a post office. The border remained closed until May 1919. One of
1305-514: The rising use of cars. Little remains of the earliest structures at Coolangatta but some evidence remains of subsequent development in the early years of the twentieth century including the Coolangatta Hotel , Kirra Beach Hotel and St Augustine's Catholic Church (Coolangatta) . In addition to the former Coolangatta State School , the Anzac Memorial (Coolangatta) , Jazzland Coolangatta ,
1350-402: The river entrance closed by silt forming a bar , so he anchored in the lee of Point Danger off Kirra Beach. Red cedar logs were then hauled overland from Terranora Inlet and rafted from the beach, but in six weeks less than half of the contracted 70,000 feet of red cedar had been loaded. Meanwhile, five ships loaded with red cedar were bar-bound inside the river. On 18 August 1846, while Steel
1395-452: The runway extending across the border into Tweed Heads in New South Wales. Coolangatta has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) with warm, wet summers and cool, moist winters. Although there is four times as much rainfall in March as there is in September, Coolangatta is still considered to have no dry season because there is more than a tenth of the rainfall of
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1440-600: The services that required duplication was a school for 56 children living in Coolangatta but attending school in Tweed Heads. Previously on 28 June 1918 the Queensland Department of Public Instruction had indicated their intention to establish a school at Coolangatta but no progress had been made. When the Coolangatta children were unable to return to their Tweed Heads school in February 1919, the Coolangatta Town Council made
1485-743: The site as the Kirra Hill Cultural and Community Centre in October 2011. The Kirra Hill site is listed on the Gold Coast Local Heritage Register . To commemorate the centenary of Coolangatta, in 1984 a stone from the Coolangatta Estate homestead was donated by the citizens of Coolangatta near Berry, New South Wales and was mounted on a plinth of granite from Aberdeen , Scotland, the birthplace of Alexander Berry . The Coolangatta library opened in 2013. During 2020 and 2021,
1530-447: The suburb, from west to east: There is a breakwater extending from Kirra Hill in the ocean which protects Coolangatta Beach from erosion ( 28°09′55″S 153°32′11″E / 28.1652°S 153.5363°E / -28.1652; 153.5363 ( breakwater ) ). The Gold Coast Airport , formerly known as Coolangatta Airport, is not located within the present suburb boundaries but within neighbouring Bilinga with part of
1575-578: The wettest month in the driest month of the year. In the 2016 census , Coolangatta had a population of 5,948 people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 2.2% of the population. The median age of people in Coolangatta was 50 years. 67.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 4.3% and England 4.0%. 80.2% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Portuguese at 1.7%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 32.3%, Catholic 21.9% and Anglican 15.4%. In
1620-525: Was administered by the Nerang Divisional Board , which became the Shire of Nerang in 1903. In 1914, Coolangatta had its own local government , the Town of Coolangatta , but in 1949 it was amalgamated into the Town of South Coast , which later became City of Gold Coast . The Coolangatta Star newspaper was published from 1916 to 1927. In May 1927, the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta star amalgamated with
1665-542: Was ashore, a south-east gale blew up. Steele's boat was damaged while getting through the surf and he watched from the beach as the gale intensified. Eventually, the prisoners were freed and all hands abandoned ship and swam for shore as the anchors dragged. The ship parted its anchors and washed ashore near what was later called Coolangatta Creek. The survivors walked 70 miles (110 km) north to Amity Point in six days, fed each night by different groups of friendly indigenous Australians , and were taken into Brisbane on board
1710-530: Was built by John Blinksell in 1843 for Alexander Berry whose property, Coolangatta Estate , adjoined Coolangatta mountain located on the northern bank of the Shoalhaven River , New South Wales. On 6 July 1846, the ship sailed under Captain Steele from Brisbane , carrying two convict prisoners (George Craig in irons, and William George Lewis), to load red cedar logs at the Tweed River for Sydney. Steele found
1755-836: Was established at Kirra in 1959. Coolangatta Special School opened on 1 January 1979 on the Kirra Hill site vacated by the Coolangatta State School. On 1 July 2006 the school was relocated to Currumbin Waters and renamed Currumbin Community Special School. Following local agitation from the "Save Kirra Hill" group, the school buildings at the Kirra Hill site were transferred to the Gold Coast City Council in 2008 for community purposes. The Council spent $ 3 million in restoration and refurbishment before officially opening
1800-842: Was established in 1926 by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart . From 1950 the school was operated by Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception. On 27 January 1987 the school relocated to a new site in Currumbin Waters . In 1992 the sisters ended their association with the school which is now under lay administration. The foundation stone of St Peter's Anglican Church at 34 Lanham Street (corner of Dutton Street, 28°10′09″S 153°32′10″E / 28.1693°S 153.5362°E / -28.1693; 153.5362 ( St Peter's Anglican Church (former) ) )
1845-535: Was in Tweed Heads near Thomson Street ( 28°10′19″S 153°32′26″E / 28.1720°S 153.5405°E / -28.1720; 153.5405 ( Tweed Heads railway station (former) ) ). The railway guaranteed the success of Coolangatta as a holiday township and it flourished from that time forward. The Tweed Heads Surf and Life Saving Club was established on Friday 26 January 1909. Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club building opened on 13 September 1911. Guesthouses and hotels were erected and
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1890-421: Was laid on 31 October 1937 by Archbishop William Wand . It was dedicated in 1938 by Wand. Its closure circa 2013 was approved by Archbishop Philip Aspinall . An unnamed cyclone crossed the coast at Coolangatta on the night of 20 February 1954. The storm quickly cleared from Queensland skies but moved south, causing widespread loss of life and flooding in New South Wales. The railway line closed in 1961 due to
1935-427: Was not until the start of the 1920 school year that the new Coolangatta State School opened with 67 students under headmaster Claude de Jersey and another teacher. It was officially opened on 2 October 1920 by Queensland Governor Matthew Nathan . Growth in the school over the decades subsequently led to its relocation to Stapylton Street, officially opening there on 26 November 1977. The old school bell from Kirra Hill
1980-608: Was relocated to the Stapylton Street where it remains in daily use. There was a stump-capping ceremony held for the Coolangatta Methodist Memorial Church on Sunday 8 June 1924. The church was officially opened at 26-28 Lanham Street ( 28°10′09″S 153°32′08″E / 28.1693°S 153.5356°E / -28.1693; 153.5356 ( Coolangatta Methodist Church ) ) on Sunday 27 September 1924 by Reverend Dr George Edward Rowe. Following
2025-500: Was widely believed to be named by Lieutenant James Cook on his 1770 exploration of the eastern Australia coastline in HMS Endeavour , but this is only partially correct. Cook did create the name, but he applied it to another headland further south (now known as Fingal Head ). This was confirmed in the 1823 map produced by explorer John Oxley . However a map published in 1831 based on the 1828 survey conducted on HMS Rainbow applied
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