Oceania · Illustrated record
Surfers Paradise Beach
Gold Coast · Australia
The short version, from the cited sources
Surfers Paradise is the emblem of Queensland's Gold Coast: a broad, straight ocean beach backed directly by a wall of high-rise towers, an unusually vertical skyline for an Australian shore. The sand is part of a continuous strip that runs for tens of kilometres along the coast, patrolled year-round and busy from dawn joggers to evening markets. The contrast between dense urban development and open surf is the defining image of the place.
- Country
- Australia (AU)
- Region
- Oceania
- Sand
- Golden
- Water
- Open ocean surf
- Administrative area
- Queensland
- Timezone
- Australia/Brisbane
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2014-06-16
Names in the record
Surfers Paradise Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
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- Current hazards and restrictions
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Source position
-28.00229, 153.43135
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Direct provenance
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Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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