Coolangatta
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, Coolangatta had a population of 5,948 people.
Coolangatta and its immediate neighbouring "Twin Town" Tweed Heads in New South Wales have 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:
* Kirra Hill (-28.1679°N, 153.5333°W ) at 27 m above sea level on the coast, which was named in 1883 by surveyor Schneider (1883) using an Aboriginal word which might mean white cockatoo or fire
* Greenmount Hill (-28.1652°N, 153.5447°W ) at 32 m above sea level on the coast, which was named for the Greenmount Guest House, operated from 1905 by Patrick J. Fagan, and named after his birthplace in County Meath, Ireland
* Murraba (-28.1752°N, 153.5313°W ) at 70 m above sea level on the border with New South Wales
Point Danger is a headland on the Queensland/New South Wales border (-28.1641°N, 153.5516°W). It 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 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 (-28.1638°N, 153.547°W). It was originally called Shark/Sharks Bay until 1926 when 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:
* Kirra (-28.1675°N, 153.5325°W) which takes its name from Kirra Hill
Coolangatta and its immediate neighbouring "Twin Town" Tweed Heads in New South Wales have 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:
* Kirra Hill (-28.1679°N, 153.5333°W ) at 27 m above sea level on the coast, which was named in 1883 by surveyor Schneider (1883) using an Aboriginal word which might mean white cockatoo or fire
* Greenmount Hill (-28.1652°N, 153.5447°W ) at 32 m above sea level on the coast, which was named for the Greenmount Guest House, operated from 1905 by Patrick J. Fagan, and named after his birthplace in County Meath, Ireland
* Murraba (-28.1752°N, 153.5313°W ) at 70 m above sea level on the border with New South Wales
Point Danger is a headland on the Queensland/New South Wales border (-28.1641°N, 153.5516°W). It 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 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 (-28.1638°N, 153.547°W). It was originally called Shark/Sharks Bay until 1926 when 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:
* Kirra (-28.1675°N, 153.5325°W) which takes its name from Kirra Hill
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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately 65,000 years ago, during the last ice age. Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world. Australia's written history commenced with the European maritime exploration of Australia. The Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon was the first known European to reach Australia, in 1606. In 1770, the British explorer James Cook mapped and claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain, and the First Fleet of British ships arrived at Sydney in 1788 to establish the penal colony of New South Wales. The European population grew in subsequent decades, and by the end of the 1850s gold rush, most of the continent had been explored by European settlers and an additional five self-governing British colonies established. Democratic parliaments were gradually established through the 19th century, culminating with a vote for the federation of the six colonies and foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and wealthy market economy.
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