Lighthouse at Point Danger, Coolangatta, Queensland - a memorial to Lieutenant James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who named the Point and described the area during the voyage of 1770.

Coolangatta is a town located in the southernmost part of the Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia. It is named after one of a schooner Coolangatta which was wrecked there in 1846. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (420x900, 73 KB)Lighthouse at Point Danger, Coolangatta, Queensland - memorial to Lieutenant James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who named the Point and described the area during the voyage of 1770. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (420x900, 73 KB)Lighthouse at Point Danger, Coolangatta, Queensland - memorial to Lieutenant James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who named the Point and described the area during the voyage of 1770. ... The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Endeavour replica in Cooktown harbour HM Bark Endeavour was originally a small merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, built in Whitby, North Yorkshire. ... 1770 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Glitz and palm trees The Gold Coast is a coastal region approximately 70 kilometres south of Brisbane, Australia that, over the past 50 years, has coalesced from a collection of scattered villages into a city of approximately 480,000 people - currently Australias seventh largest city - and Australias largest... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Coolangatta and its immediate neighbouring "Twin Town" Tweed Heads in New South Wales have a shared economy. The Tweed River supports a thriving fishing fleet, and the seafood is a local specialty offered in the restaurants and clubs of the holiday and retirement region on both sides of the state border. Tweed Heads is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... This article is about the Tweed River in Australia. ...

Early settlement

Coolangatta was one of the earliest settlements at the Gold Coast. Once again focused on a steep headland at Point Danger the area was occupied by Europeans from at least 1828 by a convict station and redcedar getters soon followed. Selectors followed in the 1860s and a small settlement at Coolangatta was established. In 1883 a township was surveyed. Glitz and palm trees The Gold Coast is a coastal region approximately 70 kilometres south of Brisbane, Australia that, over the past 50 years, has coalesced from a collection of scattered villages into a city of approximately 480,000 people - currently Australias seventh largest city - and Australias largest...

Border marker between two states, dividing the "Twin Towns".

Image File history File links Border marker between two states: dividing the Twin Towns Coolangatta in Queensland and Tweed Heads in New South Wales on the east coast of Australia. ... Image File history File links Border marker between two states: dividing the Twin Towns Coolangatta in Queensland and Tweed Heads in New South Wales on the east coast of Australia. ...

Border town

As a border town Coolangatta included a customs office and boatshed and government wharf. Extension of the railway from Nerang to Tweed Heads in 1903 guaranteed the success of Coolangatta as a holiday township and it flourished from that time forward. Guesthouses and hotels were erected and a commercial centre soon followed. Nerang is a suburb of the Gold Coast, that lies upon the Nerang River. ...

Little remains of the earliest buildings at Coolangatta but some evidence remains of subsequent development in the early years of the present century. The border fence and gates that until recently were a characteristic of the area have now been removed but the sense of the border remains at Boundary Street running along the ridge of the headland between Queensland and New South Wales. The headland itself is an important landmark and tourist destination. Coolangatta symbolises the terminus of the Gold Coast and the long strip of beach that begins at Main Beach forty kilometres to the north. Glitz and palm trees The Gold Coast is a coastal region approximately 70 kilometres south of Brisbane, Australia that, over the past 50 years, has coalesced from a collection of scattered villages into a city of approximately 480,000 people - currently Australias seventh largest city - and Australias largest... Main Beach is a suburb of the Gold Coast. ...

To commemorate the centenary of the town, in 1984 a stone from the Coolangatta Estate homestead was donated by the citizens of Coolangatta Historic Village near Berry, New South Wales and was mounted on a plinth of granite from Aberdeen, Scotland, the birthplace of Alexander Berry. Berry is a small Australian town in the Shoalhaven region in the state of New South Wales. ... This article is about the Scottish city. ...

Wintersun Festival

In June each year Coolangatta hosts the Wintersun Festival, a two week 1950s & 1960s Nostalgia Festival with free entertainment and attractions, including hot rods and restored cars and revival bands playing music of the era. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... T-Bucket hot rod Hot rods are older, often historical, cars. ...

Schooner Coolangatta

Hull planking from Coolangatta wreck.

Anchor from Coolangatta wreck site memorial; creek at right.

A topsail schooner of 83 feet in length and 88 tons, Coolangatta was built by James Blinkcell in 1843 for Alexander Berry whose property, Coolangatta Estate, adjoined Coolangatta mountain located on the northern bank of the Shoalhaven River, New South Wales. Image File history File links Planking from the Schooner Coolangatta wrecked 18 August 1846. ... Image File history File links Planking from the Schooner Coolangatta wrecked 18 August 1846. ... Image File history File links Schooner Coolangatta - Anchor and memorial of the wreck. ... Image File history File links Schooner Coolangatta - Anchor and memorial of the wreck. ... Alexander Berry (November 30, 1781_ September 17, 1873) was a Scottish born surgeon, merchant and explorer who in 1822 was given a land grant of 10,000 acres (40 km²) and 100 convicts to establish the first European settlement on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... Coolangatta Estate was established in 1822 by Scottish born surgeon, merchant and explorer, Alexander Berry, and his partner Edward Wollstonecraft who were given a land grant of 10,000 acres (40. ... The Shoalhaven River is a river on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ...

Coolangatta was wrecked on Kirra / Bilinga Beach adjacent to a creek during a storm on Wednesday 18 August 1846. August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

On 6 July 1846, the ship sailed under Captain Steele from Brisbane, carrying two convict prisoners (George Craig in irons, and William George Lewis), to load redcedar logs at the Tweed River for Sydney. Steele found the river entrance closed by silt forming a bar, so he anchored in the lee of Point Danger off Kirra Beach. Redcedar logs were then hauled overland from Terranora Inlet and rafted from the beach, but in 6 weeks less than half of the contracted 70,000 feet of redcedar had been loaded. Meanwhile, five ships loaded with redcedar were bar-bound inside the river. This article is about the Australian city. ... species Toona australis - Australian Redcedar Toona calantas - Philippine Mahogany Toona ciliata - Indian Mahogany Toona febrifuga - Vietnam Mahogany Toona sinensis - Chinese Mahogany Toona sureni - Indonesian Mahogany Toona is a genus of six species of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, native from eastern China south to India, southeast Asia and northern... This article is about the Tweed River in Australia. ... This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... Silt refers to soil or rock particles of a certain very small size range (see grain size). ... In geography, a bar is a linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. ...

On 18 August 1846, while Steel was ashore, a south-east gale blew up. Steele's boat was damaged while getting through the surf and he watched from the beach and as the gale intensified. Eventually, the prisoners were freed and all hands abandoned ship and swam for shore as the anchors dragged. The ship parted its anchors and washed ashore near what was later called Coolangatta Creek.

The survivors walked 70 miles north to Amity Point in 6 days, fed each night by different groups of friendly Australian Aborigines, and were taken into Brisbane onboard the Tamar. Australian Aborigines are the main indigenous people of Australia. ...

Government surveyor Henry Schneider named the area Coolangatta while surveying in 1883 for the land auction in March 1884. There are several uses of the word survey. ...