Australian Gold Coast?

Question

Would like additional information about the Gold Coast of Australia, from any history or geography teachers living there. I am retired male, my hobbies are poetry and photography, use to work in the film industry.

Answer 1

Gold Coast is a city and local government area in the southeast corner of Queensland, Australia. It is the second most populous city in the state and the sixth most populous city in the country. Gold Coast is renowned for its sunny subtropical climate, popular surfing beaches, expansive waterway and canal systems, a skyline dominated by high-rise apartment buildings, active nightlife and a wide array of tourist attractions.

Aboriginal people inhabited the greater Gold Coast region prior to European settlement, with some archaeological evidence suggesting their custodianship of the land extended back 23,000 years.[1]

Captain James Cook became the first European to note the region when he sailed along the coast on May 16, 1770 in the HM Bark Endeavour. This exploration was however focussed on areas south of Gold Coast region in the northern rivers of New South Wales.

Captain Matthew Flinders, an explorer charting the continent north from the colony of New South Wales, sailed past in 1802. The region remained uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach, which was named after his boat, a cutter named Mermaid.

The hinterland's red cedar supply attracted large numbers of people to the area in the mid 1800s. The western suburb of Nerang was surveyed and established as a base for the industry. Later in 1875, Southport was surveyed and established and quickly grew a reputation as a secluded holiday destination for the upper class Brisbane residents.

In 1925, tourism to the area grew rapidly when Jim Cavill established the Surfers Paradise Hotel. The population grew steadily to support the tourism industry and by the 1940s, real estate speculators and journalists were referring to the area as the "Gold Coast." The true origin of the name is still debatable. The name "Gold Coast" was officially proclaimed in 1958 when the South Coast Town Council was renamed "Gold Coast Town Council."

During the 1970s, high-rises began to dominate the area now know as Surfers Paradise and later in 1981 the airport was established. In 1994 the Gold Coast City Council and the Shire of Albert amalgamated to create new city boundaries under the administration of the City of Gold Coast Council.

Answer 2

Sounds like you have an artistic streak. You probably will not like the Gold Coast. Think of a slightly less crass Las Vegas, put it by tropical surf beaches and there you have it. I'm a Queenslander, it's in my home state and I have been there three times in my life, it has not improved.

The reason it took off, according to a possibly correct theory is that it is on the Queensland - New South Wales border. Right up until the early 1960s, hotel bars in New South Wales closed at 6pm. In Queensland closing time was 10pm. So holiday makers preferred to stay on the Queensland side.

Answer 3

What sort of specific information are you looking for that you couldn't have just looked up on Wikipedia?

As you are retired, with interests of poetry and photography, you will probably prefer the lifestyle around Byron Bay rather than the Gold Coast (which is a brash commercialist tourist rip-off place).

Answer 4

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