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Suburb of City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Gaven

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

Gaven
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Warner 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
  2. 02
    Carrara 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
  3. 03
    Sea 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
  4. 04
    Nerang 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
  5. 05
    Coombabah 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
  6. 06
    Versace 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
  7. 07
    Gold 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
  8. 08
    Aquinas 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
  9. 09
    Biggera 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
  10. 10
    William 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Gaven
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · A$8–11
  • Maroochydore → Gaven
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · A$20–27
  • Toowoomba → Gaven
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · A$20–27
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Gold Coast, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    306 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,746 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,791 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,265 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,024 km

If you know how people move in Gaven – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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