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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.
The Tweed Heads Surf and Life Saving Club was established on Friday 26 January 1909. [11] Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club building opened on 13 September 1911. [12] Guesthouses and hotels were erected and a commercial centre soon followed.
Danger Point Lighthouse, Walker Bay, South Africa Point Danger Light , located at Point Danger (Tweed Heads) on the border of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia See also
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.
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The River Clarance, or more properly the Tweed, discovered by Mr. Oxley, but not explored, is in lat. 28° 9', long. 153° 34' bearing N.W.½ W. from Turtle Island distant 2 ½ miles – it is situated to the southward of a Bluff Head, connected with the Main by a flat sandy Isthmus, 250 yards wide from high water mark forming a boundary to the ...
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]
Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border. The beach is 350 meters in length with vegetated dunes running along 200 metres. [ 2 ]