Gaven
Gaven is a rural residential locality in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Gaven is a rural residential locality in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Gaven had a population of 1,638 people.
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Worth seeing in and around Gaven
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Warner Bros. Movie World
Warner Bros. Movie World is a theme park on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
5.6 km · theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Carrara Stadium
Carrara Stadium is a stadium located in the Gold Coast suburb of Carrara. It is primarily used for Australian rules football as the home ground of the Gold Coast Suns, which competes in the Australian Football League.
6.7 km · stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia - 03Sea World
Sea World is a marine mammal park, oceanarium, and theme park located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It offers attractions such as rides and animal exhibits and promotes conservation through education and the rescue and rehabilitation of sick, injured or orphaned wildlife.
8.9 km · marine mammal park, oceanarium, and theme park located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia - 04Nerang National Park
Nerang National Park is a national park in Queensland, Australia situated on the Gold Coast. The protected area is located 12 kilometres from Surfers Paradise on Nerang’s north-west outskirts.
3.8 km · national park in Australia · Wikipedia - 05Coombabah Lake
The Coombabah Lake Conservation Park is a conservation park that is an Important Wetland in Australia, located in the Gold Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia. Part of the Coomera River catchment, Lake Coombabah is a tidal lake at the mouth of Coombabah Creek.
5.2 km · lake in Australia · Wikipedia - 06Versace Palace
Imperial Hotel Gold Coast is a luxury hotel located by the Southport Broadwater in Main Beach, and Marina Mirage shopping centre at Southport Spit on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The hotel was constructed by the Sunland Group on the site of the former Fisherman's Wharf complex.
9.1 km · Luxury hotel located on the Southport Spit at Main Beach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. · Wikipedia - 07Gold Coast Hockey Centre
Gold Coast Hockey Centre is a hockey stadium in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The venue was renovated to host the men's and women's hockey event of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
5.8 km · hockey stadium in Gold Coast, Queensland · Wikipedia - 08Aquinas College
Aquinas College is an independent Catholic secondary school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Southport in Queensland, Australia. Aquinas College has a current enrolment of 1,200 students from Year 7 to 12.
5.3 km · Coeducational Catholic College, Gold Coast Queensland · Wikipedia - 09Biggera Creek Dam
The Biggera Creek Dam, or formally the Biggera Creek Flood Mitigation Dam, is an earth-filled embankment dam across the Biggera Creek, located approximately 3 kilometres northwest of Southport in the suburb of Arundel, in the South East region of Queensland, Australia. The dam was established for flood mitigation purposes.
4.7 km · dam in Australia · Wikipedia - 10William Duncan State School
William Duncan State School is a public co-educational primary school located in the City of Gold Coast suburb of Highland Park, Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 570 students and a teaching staff of 45, as of 2023.
6.8 km · government primary school in Highland Park, QLD, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gaven
- Airports
- Gold Coast (OOL), 29 km · Brisbane (BNE), 67 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 153 km
- Stations
- Southport Airport, 5 km · Helensvale railway station, 3.2 km · Nerang railway station, 4.7 km
- Brisbane → Gaven62 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · A$8–11
- Maroochydore → Gaven147 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · A$20–27
- Toowoomba → Gaven143 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · A$20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gaven
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gaven. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
- Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.
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Next door to Gaven
Gaven is 11 km from Gold Coast, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gold Coastcity in Queensland, Australia9.5 km
- Surfers Paradisesuburb of Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia9.5 km
- Southportsuburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia6.5 km
- Main Beachsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia9.4 km
- Hope Islandsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia10 km
- Oxenfordsuburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia6.2 km