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 2021 census, Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people.
Getting to Coolangatta
- 01Gold Coast Airport
Worth seeing
- 01Point Danger
Most prominent headland of the Gold Coast and the point where the New South Wales / Queensland border meets the sea.
- 02Fingal Head
- 03Tropical Fruit World
An educational park where tropical fruit is grown for experiments, viewing and tasting.
Things to do
Scuba diving There are several scuba dive companies using Cook Island as their dive location. Cook island is the small island first mentioned by James Cook when he named Point Danger and Mt. Warning in 1770, about 2km offshore.
Where to eat
Tweed Heads has a vibrant club scene based on service and sporting clubs, much larger than the shire would normally sustain. The background to these establishments is that for many years poker machines were prohibited in Queensland, but allowable in clubs in New South Wales. Thus clubs proliferated just over the border in Tweed Heads, thriving on holiday traffic from the Gold Coast and on day trippers from Brisbane.
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