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Point Danger is a headland, located at Coolangatta on the southern end of the Gold Coast on the east coast of Australia. Separated by Snapper Rocks and Rainbow Bay to the west, with Duranbah Beach and the Tweed River mouth to the south, present-day Point Danger has also indicated the border between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia, since 1863.
Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It lays claim to be the first lighthouse in the world to experiment with laser as a light source. [4]
Border Gates between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, 1943 Aerial view looking towards Point Danger, Coolangatta, c. 1952. Tweed Heads (New South Wales) is to the left. The main road running inland from the headland is Boundary Street, which marks the state border.
Point Danger Light, located at Point Danger (Tweed Heads) on the border of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia; See also. Danger (disambiguation)
Snapper Rocks is a point break, which as of 2007, forms the first part of the man-made "Superbank" surf break. [3]Since 1995 the Tweed River sand bypass system has pumped sand from the Tweed River mouth to beaches to the north to ensure the river mouth is safe for shipping, and to stabilise coastal erosion north of the river.
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The sand would fill the Tweed River entrance unpredictably and sometimes completely. In response the New South Wales government implemented the Tweed Sand Bypassing to transport sand under the river by pump on to northern beaches. [3] The headland, Cook Island and the Danger Reefs, were made from a lava flow from the now extinct Tweed Volcano.
If the surface skin were to be infected, the infection could seep into the blood vessels, and, worst case scenario, lead to blood clots, stroke or death.